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Maud Hart Lovelace QUOTES

41 " 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 , Betsy and the Great World (Betsy-Tacy, #9)

42 " The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Betsy in Spite of Herself (Betsy-Tacy, #6)

43 " Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Betsy and the Great World (Betsy-Tacy, #9)

44 " 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 , Emily of Deep Valley (Deep Valley, #2)

45 " You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (Betsy-Tacy, #3)

46 " A house with nothing old in it seems - unseasoned. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Emily of Deep Valley (Deep Valley, #2)

47 " I've got to stop thinking about myself so much--about how I look, how I'm impressing someone, whether I'm popular or not. I've got to start thinking about other people, all the people I meet. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Betsy and Joe (Betsy-Tacy, #8)

48 " 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 , The Betsy-Tacy Treasury (Betsy-Tacy, #1–4)

49 " 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 , Emily of Deep Valley (Deep Valley, #2)

50 " We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Betsy Was a Junior (Betsy-Tacy, #7)

51 " We're growing up," Betsy said aloud. She wasn't even sure she liked it. But it happened, and then it was irrevocable. There was nothing you could do about it except to try and see that you grew up into the kind of human being you wanted to be.

"I'd like to be a fine one," Betsy thought quickly and urgently. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Betsy Was a Junior / Betsy and Joe (Betsy-Tacy #7-8)

52 " That's the way you have to be with boys," said Betsy. "Beam about their old football when you're dying to know whether they're going to take you to a party. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Heaven to Betsy (Betsy-Tacy, #5)

53 " 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 , Carney's House Party (Deep Valley, #1)

54 " This going around with boys makes me sick," said Tacy.
"I like Herbert Humphreys," said Tib.
It was just like Tib to like a boy and say so.
"Oh, if you have to have a boy around, it might as well be Herbert," said Betsy, who liked him too.
"He wears cute clothes," said Tacy, blushing.
Herbert Humphreys, who had come to Deep Valley from St. Paul, wore knickerbockers. The other boys in their grade wore plain short pants. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (Betsy-Tacy, #4)

55 " ... the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Heaven to Betsy (Betsy-Tacy, #5)

56 " All those resolutions she had made on Babcock's bay! How they had been smashed to smithereens! She wondered whether life consisted of making resolutions and breaking them, of climbing up and slipping down.
'I believe that's it', she thought. 'And the bright side of it is that you never slip down to quite the point you started climbing from. You always gain a little....'
She thought about those lists she had made in her programs for self-improvement. She hadn't followed them out by any means, but they had revealed her ideals....
'We're growing up,' Betsy said aloud. She wasn't even sure she liked it. But it happened, and then it was irrevocable. There was nothing you could do about it except try to see that you grew up into the kind of human being you wanted to be.
'I'd like to be a fine one,' Betsy thought quickly and urgently. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Betsy Was a Junior (Betsy-Tacy, #7)

57 " The next morning, of course, Betsy made a list. Lists were always her comfort. For years she had made lists of books she must read, good habits she must acquire, things she must do to make herself prettier—like brushing her hair a hundred strokes at night, and manicuring her fingernails, and doing calisthenics before an open window in the morning. (That one hadn’t lasted long.)
It was fun making this list, sitting in bed with her breakfast tray on her lap…hot chocolate, crisp hard rolls, and a pat of butter. Hanni had brought it to her after closing the windows and pushing back the velvet draperies. Betsy felt like a heroine in one of her own stories; their maids always awakened them that way.

1. Learn the darn money.
2. Study German. (You’ve forgotten all you knew.)
3. Buy a map and learn the city—from end to end, as you told Papa you would.
4. Read the history of Bavaria. You must have it for background.
5. Go to the opera. (You didn’t stay in Madeira because Munich is such a center for music and art???)
6. Go to the art galleries. (Same reason.)
7. Write!

Full of enthusiasm, she planned a schedule. First, each morning, she would have her bath, and then write until noon. After the midday dinner she would go out and learn the city. She would go to the galleries, museums, and churches. She would have coffee out—for atmosphere.
“Then I’ll come home and study German and read Bavarian history. And after supper…” she tried not to remember the look of that dining room…“I’ll write my diary-letter, except when I go to the opera or concerts. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Betsy and the Great World / Betsy's Wedding (Betsy-Tacy #9-10)

58 " ...the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say - Mr. Ray, Heaven to Betsy "

― Maud Hart Lovelace

59 " 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

60 " Sometimes the west showed clouds like tiny pink feathers; sometimes it showed purple mountains and green lakes; sometimes the clouds were scarlet with gold around the edges. Betsy "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)