“Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.”
Betty Smith book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943).
“My heart pumping 70 times a minute every minute my whole life. What a task! To reach any age in those terms sounds miraculous!”
"Complete Hero" (2009)
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