Betty Smith

Quotes

• “Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child mu...”
• “Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which li...”
• “Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was ...”
• “Wouldn't it be more of a free country," persisted Francie "if we could ride in them free?" "No." "Why?" "Because that wo...”
• “Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, ...”
• “She was a blameless sinless woman, yet she understood who how it was with people who sinned. Inflexibly rigid in her own...”
• “This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pa...”
• “Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was...”
• “They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices. But they were all made out of thin ...”
• “They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering Wes and soft fluttery voices. But they were all made out of thin i...”
• “But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things — or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce.”
• “But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.”
• “Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.”
• “Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.”