"People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia……" — Maud Hart Lovelace
"People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?' Margaret would smile politely, for she was very polite, but privately she stormed to Betsy with flashing eyes, 'I'm not going to do anything. I want to just live. Can't people just live?"
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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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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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One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a…
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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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