Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes
Top 33 wise famous quotes and sayings by Maud Hart Lovelace
Maud Hart Lovelace Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.
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.
"its just because he likes pink," she told herself.
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.
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?
" 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.
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.
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.