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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 Quotes)
You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It’s the beginning of growing up (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
Good things come, but they’re never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
People were always saying to Margaret, ‘Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?’ Margaret would smile politely, for she was very polite, but privately she stormed to Betsy with flashing eyes, ‘I’m not going to do anything. I want to just live. Can’t people just live? (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
Do you girls have hope chests?’ Lloyd asked. We certainly do.’ I don’t,’ said Betsy. ‘My husband and I are going to use paper plates and napkins.’ Poor Joe!’ Lucky Larry! (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
The most important part of religion isn’t in any church. It’s down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It’s honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
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 Quotes)
She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Isn’t it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
We’ll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That’s when they bloom, tra la (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they’re going to ask you to something or other. It’s a strain (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)
And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories (Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes)