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Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

Maud Hart Lovelace

Betsy in Spite of Herself

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Heaven to Betsy

Maud Hart Lovelace

Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

Maud Hart Lovelace

Betsy in Spite of Herself

Maud Hart Lovelace

Heaven to Betsy

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Famous Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes

“Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy and the Great World

Source: Betsy and the Great World

“You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Heaven to Betsy

Source: Heaven to Betsy

“The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

Source: Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

“Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.”

Maud Hart Lovelace

Source: Betsy and the Great World / Betsy's Wedding

“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy-Tacy and Tib

Source: Betsy-Tacy and Tib (1941), p. 4

“And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Heaven to Betsy

Source: Heaven to Betsy

Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes

“She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

Source: Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (1943)

“Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy in Spite of Herself

Source: Betsy in Spite of Herself

“Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

Source: Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

“In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy-Tacy and Tib

Source: Betsy-Tacy and Tib

“Say, you told me you thoughtwas the greatest novel ever written. I thinkis the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy and Joe

Source: Betsy and Joe

“The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy in Spite of Herself

Source: Betsy in Spite of Herself

“When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they're going to ask you to something or other. It's a strain.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy in Spite of Herself

Source: Betsy in Spite of Herself

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