Quote by Betty Smith Download Open image ““I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.”” — Betty Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Maybe being loved wasn't enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble.” — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Sometimes love isn't enough. And if it's not enough, what good is it?” — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“Maybe, because all these good people loved me enough to help me, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as I felt. Maybe there was… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“You also need love. Your characters need to love something, otherwise they will be unlovable.” — James Franco Copy Share Image
“...perhaps it is loving that counts, not the being loved in return- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“There is a great need to be needed. Remember, you feel good whenever you are needed. Sometimes, even if it brings misery to you,… — Osho Copy Share Image
“If you want to be loved,be a loveable. It's a good place to start.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Several times that day, the name or thought of Papa had come up. And each time, Francie had felt a flash of tenderness instead… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Sissy told them they were way behind the times; that midwives were things of the past. Besides, she informed them proudly, she had no… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Why, Mrs McGarrity's all right. Mr McGarrity's all right, too. Only I guess they aren't all right to each other.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“I drink because I don't stand a chance and I know it. I couldn't drive a truck and I couldn't get on the cops… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Pipe dreams, he thought to himself, even while he was telling her about his dream winnings. But oh, how wonderful, he thought, if everything… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
