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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.

We’re growing up,” Betsy said aloud. She wasn’t even sure she liked it. But it happened, and then it wasn’t irrevocable. There was nothing you could do about it except 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.

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.

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

Our lives can hold just so much. If they’re filled with one thing, they can’t be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn’t for a moment suspect that around a bend in her Winding Hall of Fate a journey was actually waiting.

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.

Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people’s luck.

Some characters become your friends for life. That’s how it was for me with Betsy and Tacy. – JUDY BLUME.

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.

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?

There was nothing like a picnic! she reflected. If you were happy, it made you happier. If you were unhappy, it blew your troubles away.

Joe Willard turned from his study of the trees beyond the window and raised his hand. ‘Yes, Joe?’ Mr. Gaston said, changing his tone. ‘It is my opinion sir, that apple blossoms are pink.’ Mr. Gaston was silent, stunned. ‘Pinkish, rather.’ Joe continued. ‘I think Betsy’s word ‘rosy’ is excellent. They’re colored just enough to make the effect rosy.′ The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

We’re growing up and I don’t like it,” said Tacy, as they say at Heinz’s later, drinking coffee.

After all, you couldn’t go through life rolling your friendships into one gigantic snowball. You wanted different kinds of friendships, with different kinds of people.

Did he know that she was so dissatisfied with herself that she was always pretending to be different? Probably he did, and despised her for it. More than anyone she knew, Joe Willard was always, fearlessly, himself.

Thoughts are such fleet magic things. Betsy’s thoughts swept a wide arc while Uncle Keith read her poem aloud. She thought of Julia learning to sing with Mrs. Poppy. She thought of Tib learning to dance. She thought of herself and Tacy and Tib going into their ’teens. She even thought of Tom and Herbert and of how, by and by, they would be carrying her books and Tacy’s and Tib’s up the hill from high school.

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.

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.

When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they’re going to ask you to something or other. It’s a strain.

A house with nothing old in it seems – unseasoned.

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.

Isn’t it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.

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.

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

Muster your wits: stand in your own defense.

One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star.

The most important part of religion isn’t in any church. 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.

Good things come, but they’re never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change," Betsy decided profoundly.

Change Quotes / Betsy tacy Quotes Betsy Was a Junior Quotes Easier Quotes New things Quotes Old Quotes Old things Quotes

Our lives can only hold so much. If they’re filled with one thing, they can’t be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

Betsy Was a Junior Quotes

Quote of the Day-April 25, 2016“She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.

Our lives can only hold so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a bend in her Winding Hall of Fate a journey was actually waiting.

Betsy in Spite of Herself Quotes Betsy tacy Quotes Deep valley Quotes

They always ate and made tea on the alcohol lamp before going to bed. This was quite in the German tradition, Tilda said. Germans in their homes ate six meals a day: breakfast, second breakfast, dinner, afternoon coffee, supper and in the evening tea or beer with sandwiches and kuchen. Betsy, in the cherry-red bathrobe, and Tilda in a blue one, feasted merrily.

Betsy and the Great World / Betsy's Wedding Quotes

But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.

List Quotes Writing life Quotes

We're growing up and I don't like it," said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.

Coffee Quotes / Betsy tacy Quotes Betsy Was a Junior Quotes Growing up Quotes

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.

Beauty Quotes Music Quotes Nature Quotes / Betsy and Joe Quotes Betsy tacy Quotes Death Quotes Spring Quotes

Thoughts are such fleet magic things. Betsy's thoughts swept a wide arc while Uncle Keith read her poem aloud. She thought of Julia learning to sing with Mrs. Poppy. She thought of Tib learning to dance. She thought of herself and Tacy and Tib going into their 'teens. She even thought of Tom and Herbert and of how, by and by, they would be carrying her books and Tacy's and Tib's up the hill from high school.

Future Quotes / Adventures Quotes Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown Quotes Children Quotes Friends Quotes Growing up Quotes Looking ahead Quotes

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.

Betsy Was a Junior Quotes

Sam!” cried Carney. “I’m afraid I lost the flashlight, but…” That was all she said for Sam took her in his arms. Holding her tightly he kissed her muddy face, not once but several times.

Carney's House Party Quotes

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

Betsy and Joe Quotes Betsy tacy Quotes The world Quotes

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.

Betsy Was a Junior / Betsy and Joe Quotes

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?

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

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.

Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown Quotes

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.

Caneys house party Quotes Carney's House Party Quotes

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

Heaven to Betsy Quotes

Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people's luck.

Happiness Quotes Joy Quotes / Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown Quotes Others Quotes

Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted to talk she couldn't say a word.

Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown Quotes Silent Quotes Talker Quotes Talking Quotes

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