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Betsy and Joe (Betsy-Tacy, #8) QUOTES

Betsy and Joe (Betsy-Tacy, #8) QUOTES

1 " The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen... "

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

2 " You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults. "

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

3 " Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing. "

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

4 " Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard "

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

5 " After Commencement Day, the world!" Joe said. "With Betsy. "

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

6 " She felt a little better about Leonard out here in the country. It was just being close to nature, she supposed. In the country you felt as you never could in town the return of spring after winter. You felt a sort of pulse in the earth which proved that nothing dies, that everything comes back in beauty. Leonard was coming back... in some place beautiful enough to pay him for leaving the world. God knew all about his music, too. He would use that music someplace. "

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

7 " 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 , Betsy and Joe (Betsy-Tacy, #8)

8 " 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)