She knew from listening to her grandmother that old age was made up of such remembrances of youth.But she didn’t want to recall things. She wanted to live things—or as a compromise, re-live rather tha...
Laurie's going to have a mighty easy life all right.Annie Laurie McShane! She'll never have the hard times we had, will she?No. And she'll never have the fun we had, either.Gosh! We did have fun, didn...
Isn't hot coffee a wonderful thing? How did people get along before it was invented?
I'm glad I got you!
I'll not punish you for having an imagination.
I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.
I drink because I don't stand a chance and I know it. I couldn't drive a truck and I couldn't get on the cops with my build. I got to sling beer and sing when I just want to sing. I drink because I go...
He’d get lost if he tried to find his way back to New York from her neighborhood. Brooklyn was tricky that way. You had to live there in order to find your way about.
Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world.
Francie of course became an outsider shunned by all because of her stench. But she had grown accostumed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and being considered different. She did not suffe...
And that’s where the whole trouble is, thought Francie. We’re too much alike to understand each other because we don’t even understand our own selves. Papa and I were two different persons and we unde...
An answer came to Katie. It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pul...
All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely...
A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and kee...
A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the boot strap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and ke...
I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.
When it first appeared, in 1943, it was called, by those critics who liked it, an honest book, and that is accurate as far as it goes. But it is more than that: It is deeply, indelibly true. Honesty i...
What had granma Mary Rommely said? To 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.
The difference was that Flossie Gaddis was starved about men and Sissy was healthily hungry about them. And what a difference that made.