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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.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
After Commencement Day, the world!" Joe said. "With Betsy.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
We're growing up and I don't like it, said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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
In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
It looks like something out of Whittier's "Snowbound,"' Julia said. Julia could always think of things like that to say.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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. — Maud Hart Lovelace
The poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say - Mr. Ray, Heaven to Betsy
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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? — Maud Hart Lovelace
The five-year-olds were the most important members of the large doll families. Everything pleasant happened to them. They had all the adventures.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people's luck.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
Muster your wits: stand in your own defense.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star
— Maud Hart Lovelace
They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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
— Maud Hart Lovelace
New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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
A house with nothing old in it seems - unseasoned.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.
— Maud Hart Lovelace