Quote by Betty Smith Download Open image ““It was as if nothing wrong could happen in a world where things balanced so stilly.”” — Betty Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“My world was delicately balanced, but the scales never hung even. When something improved, something else had to crumble.” — Rebecca Donovan Copy Share Image
“The more things are wrong the more we must act as if all were right.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There are good and bad sides to everything. We just have to balance them as best we can.” — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“The situation was terrible, of course. But the universe could still be so beautiful.” — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“So much has happened it's as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down.” — Anne Frank 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
