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- Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that…
- She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part…
- 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…
- People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.
- 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…
- People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.
- People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up;…
- Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to…
- I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging…
- 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…
- 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…
- But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree…
- But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow…
- In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have…
- 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…
- Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget…
- People always think that happiness is a faraway thing, something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place…
More Up Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong