You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.
We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand ourselves.
Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'.
Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
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.
What is the difference between happiness and contentment?Well, happy is like when somebody gives you a big hunk of something wonderful and it’s too big to hold. So you pull off a piece from time to ti...
People always think that happiness is a far away thing, something complicated and hard to get. yet, little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you...
When I grow up and know that I am going to have a baby, I will remember to walk proud and slow..
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...
When night draws back the curtain,And pins it with a star,Remember you are still my friend,Though you may wander far
When the strong healthy boy, howling at the indignity of the birth process, was put to her breast, she felt a wild tenderness for him, The other baby, Francis, in the crib next her bed, began to whimp...
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...
Why can't they, she thought bitterly, just give the doll away without saying I am poor and she is rich? Why couldn't they just give it away without all the talking about it?
Willie tried to enlist in the army and was turned down; whereupon he threw his job, came home, announced that he was a failure, and went to bed. (...) He said he was going to stay in bed and never get...
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?...
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 Sunday...
You betcha they’d live, thought Francie grimly. It takes a lot of doing to die.
You know, a lot of people would think that these stories that you're making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the future, when something com...
You married him. There was something about him that caught your heart. Hang on to that and forget the rest.
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