You married him. There was something about him that caught your heart. Hang on to that and forget the rest.
Katie! Don't nag! All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the life it's in him to live.
Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy.
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.
Gently, Teacher explained the difference between a lie and a story. A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have h...
Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together; it should make them love and protect each other...
Good-bye, Francie
She wanted to shout it out. She could read! She could read! From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books becam...
It's come at last, she thought, the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.
The sad thing was in the knowing that all their nerve would get them nowhere in the world and that they were lost as all people in Brooklyn seem lost when the day is nearly over and even though the su...
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...
Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
I don't know. Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than just to be ... safe. At least she knows she's livin...
In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it happened. Tell the truth and write the story.
Now my wandering days are over. It will be bliss to settle down. Bliss. There's a word, now. Bliss to love and to be loved.
The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed. That is what is called learning the truth.
You must learn to take a joke, Francie, otherwise life will be pretty hard on you.
But they’d live. You betcha they’d live, thought Francie grimly. It takes a lot of doing to die.
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...
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?...
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