It was one of the links between the ground-down poor and the wasteful rich. The girl felt that even if she had less than anybody in Williamsburg, somehow she had more. She was richer because she had s...
There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.
In the winter, when the first snow was too delicate to last on the sidewalks, it clung to the rough surface of the brick and was like fairy lace.
I will not speak falsely and say to you: 'Do not grieve for me when I go.' I have loved my children and tried to be a good mother and it is right that my children grieve for me. But let your grief be...
It is good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and...
Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
If I can fix every detail of this time in my mind, I can keep this moment always.
Dear God, she prayed, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.
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.
Why? When I, myself do not believe?Because,explained Mary Rommely simply, the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that...
He was a baby once. He must have been sweet and clean and his mother kissed his little pink toes. Maybe when it thundered at night she came to his crib and fixed his blanket better and whispered that...
Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let...
…the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.
Then I've been drunk, too, admitted Francie.On beer?No. Last spring, in McCarren's Park, I saw a tulip for the first time in my life.
Her time has come, answered Miss Lizzie. That's why I didn't marry Harvey - long ago when he asked me. I was afraid of 'that'. So afraid. I don't know, Miss Lizzie said. Sometimes I think it's better...
I wait for death with the courage I gained from living.
But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every si...
That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and mak...
The tree man eulogized them by screaming, 'And now get the hell out of here with your tree, you lousy bastards.'Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no mea...
Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.
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