Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturd...
Anything you say may be used against you.
Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies;...
One of Francie's favorite stores was the one which sold nothing but tea, coffee, and spices. It was an exciting place of rows of lacquered bins and strange, romantic, exotics odors. There were a dozen...
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 of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter qu...
In his business, he observed human nature and came to certain conclusions about it. The conclusions lacked wisdom and originality; in fact, they were tiresome. But they were important to McGarrity bec...
And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who li...
Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies.
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading.
May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a saved penny that you put in the star bank...Suffer the cold for an hour. Put a shawl around y...
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 the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they coul...
The world was hers for the reading.
…the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.
But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things - or as a compromise, re-live rather than reminisce.
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
I believe in the Lord, Jesus Christ, and His Mother, Holy Mary. Jesus was a living baby once. He went bare-footed like we do in the summer. I saw a picture where He was a boy and had no shoes on. And...
But in their secret hearts, each new that it wasn't all right and would never be all right between them again.
There had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background its flashing glory.
Oh, and you must not forget the Kris Kringle. The child must believe in him until she reaches the age of six. I KNOW there is not Santa Claus.Yet you must teach the child that these things are so.Why?...
The tears stood in her eyes.
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