"One strain could call up the quivering expectancy……" — Maud Hart Lovelace
"One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star"
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Maud Hart Lovelace
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23 Quotes by Maud Hart Lovelace
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Do you girls have hope chests?' Lloyd asked. We certainly do.' I don't,' said Betsy. 'My husband and I are…
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People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?'…
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She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of…
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And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not…
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When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they…
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The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.
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We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.
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Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.
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Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages…
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You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.
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You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what…
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Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting…
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