Childhood Quote by Maud Hart Lovelace

Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

— Maud Hart Lovelace

Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“A house with nothing old in it seems - unseasoned.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“...the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say - Mr. Ray, Heaven to Betsy”

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having private corners, and the piano box was plainly…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the…

— Maud Hart Lovelace