Betty Smith, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

Quotes

• “The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as...”
• “In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think i...”
• “I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again,...”
• “A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that ...”
• “But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with...”
• “From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate ...”
• “Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all rea...”
• “Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the clas...”
• “She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did no...”
• “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth fil...”
• “The world was hers for the reading.”