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What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life ... and promise.

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

We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told to build a house.

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

After Commencement Day, the world!" Joe said. "With Betsy.

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

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

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

It looks like something out of Whittier's "Snowbound,"' Julia said. Julia could always think of things like that to say.

You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.

Carney was hatless and gloveless, wearing her pink linen. Sam looked at her more than once.
"its just because he likes pink," she told herself.

The poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say - Mr. Ray, Heaven to Betsy

I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.

Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted to talk she couldn't say a word.

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

We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.

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

And then we'll go to Tiffany's and get you a ring. And then
" he turned swiftly to look into her fade
" when can we get married?

The five-year-olds were the most important members of the large doll families. Everything pleasant happened to them. They had all the adventures.

Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people's luck.

Muster your wits: stand in your own defense.

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

One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star

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

I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.

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

Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.

Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard

New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly.

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

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?

A house with nothing old in it seems - unseasoned.

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.