Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the...
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; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of stron...
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.
Time, no matter what else it did, passed, and that the school boy of today was the voter of tomorrow.
The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.
SERENE WAS A WORD YOU COULD PUT TO BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
Say something, demanded Fancie. Why don't you say something?What can I say?
Seems like I'm the most dissatisfied person in the whole world. Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
Wouldn't it be more of a free country, persisted Francie if we could ride in them free? No. Why? Because that would be Socialism, concluded Johnny triumphantly, and we don't want that over here. Why?...
You must learn to take a joke, Francie, otherwise life will be pretty hard on you.
She adapted herself to the split-second rhythm of the New Yorker going to and from work. Getting to the office was a nervous ordeal. If she arrived one minute before nine, she was a free person. If sh...
She did not hate Miss Garnder anymore. She didn't like her, but she felt sorry for her. Miss Garnder had nothing in all the world excepting a sureness about how right she was.
She got herself widowed, divorced, married, and pregnant – all in ten days’ time.
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.
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 only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong be...
She looked quickly at the little golden-brown pottery jug which stood at the end of the librarian's desk. It was a season indicator. In the fall it held a few sprigs of bittersweet and at Christmas ti...
She looked at the nurse. To Francie, all women were mamas like her own mother and Aunt Sissy and Aunt Evy. She thought the nurse might say something like:Maybe this little girl's mother works and didn...
The Nolan's just could't get enough of life. They lived their own lives up to the hilt but that wasn't enough. They had to fill in on the lives of all the people they made contact with.
She learned of the class system of a great Democracy. She was puzzled and hurt by teacher’s attitude. Obviously the teacher hated her and others like her for no other reason than that they were what t...
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