Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes

Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on ...

Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and ...

Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said s...

The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid o...

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

You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good tr...

Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another...

We're growing up and I don't like it," said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.

We're growing up," Betsy said aloud. She wasn't even sure she liked it. But it happened, and then it...

After all, you couldn't go through life rolling your friendships into one gigantic snowball. You wan...

But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.

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

Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a des...

Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other p...

It looks like something out of Whittier's "Snowbound,"' Julia said. Julia could always think of thin...

Thoughts are such fleet magic things. Betsy's thoughts swept a wide arc while Uncle Keith read her p...

She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed he...

Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they ...

The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in...

And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. S...

They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age...

Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a b...

Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean p...

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

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