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Heaven to Betsy / Betsy in Spite of Herself (Betsy-Tacy #5-6) QUOTES

Heaven to Betsy / Betsy in Spite of Herself (Betsy-Tacy #5-6) QUOTES

1 " Why do you have to study together?” Mr. Ray asked. “When I was a boy we didn’t study in droves. And what help is all the fudge?” “Nourishment, Papa, nourishment,” Betsy explained. “We need strength. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Heaven to Betsy / Betsy in Spite of Herself (Betsy-Tacy #5-6)

2 " How does a girl act with boys, exactly?” Tacy asked. “Oh,” said Betsy airily, “you just curl your hair and use a lot of perfume and act plagued when they tease you. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Heaven to Betsy / Betsy in Spite of Herself (Betsy-Tacy #5-6)

3 " All that kneeling down and getting up, kneeling down and getting up! But I can stand it if you can,” Mr. Ray grumbled to his wife. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Heaven to Betsy / Betsy in Spite of Herself (Betsy-Tacy #5-6)

4 " Three times! Three dull blows at Betsy’s heart. He must have ’phoned her twice before he came over to the Rays, and probably once after he left. She couldn’t remember that Tony had ever ’phoned her. He wasn’t a telephone addict as some of the boys and most of the girls were. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Heaven to Betsy / Betsy in Spite of Herself (Betsy-Tacy #5-6)

5 " And just as Betsy came up the telephone bell inside the kitchen rang. Two long and three short rings, the Taggarts’ call. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Heaven to Betsy / Betsy in Spite of Herself (Betsy-Tacy #5-6)

6 " In the little yellow cottage which had once been the Ray house, lights were shining. It could almost have been home still. Betsy and Tacy could almost have been children again. “I wish I still lived there,” said Betsy, hugging Tacy, partly from love and partly from cold. “It’s such trouble to grow up. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Heaven to Betsy / Betsy in Spite of Herself (Betsy-Tacy #5-6)

7 " hope you’ll go to church as regularly as mother and I do. We miss a Sunday now and then, when it’s fine picnicking weather. We know that God made the out-of-doors, too. But year in, year out, we go to church pretty regularly. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Heaven to Betsy / Betsy in Spite of Herself (Betsy-Tacy #5-6)

8 " 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 , Heaven to Betsy / Betsy in Spite of Herself (Betsy-Tacy #5-6)

9 " That affair with Tony helped my writing,” she told Tacy. “I mean, it will when I get around to write. It’s good for writers to suffer.” Tony dropped in often, teasing and affectionate as ever, and quite unaware of having improved her art. "

― Maud Hart Lovelace , Heaven to Betsy / Betsy in Spite of Herself (Betsy-Tacy #5-6)