The world was hers for the reading. - Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

"I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him."

"I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him."

"Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory."

"She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much."

"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."