She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to w... - Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
"She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much."
More quotes by Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
"In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got."
"A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been."
"The world was hers for the reading."
"Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy."
"But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked."