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Out Quotes by Betty Smith
- Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman…
- Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water…
- It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a…
- A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might…
- Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to…
- It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in…
- There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree…
- You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through…
- She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again. Eyes changed after…
- No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected…
- Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never…
- She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You…
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