“Memory can refuse to let you forget what you’d like to and run away with what you want to remember. It’s an unreliable bitch, or your best friend. Sometimes, it’s both at once.”
―
Megan Hart,
Broken
“Sometimes,” Joe said after a bit, “it’s just easier to keep being what everyone expects you to be. Even if that’s what you’re not, anymore.” ― Megan Hart, Broken
“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
“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
“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
“From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories,” Joe said quietly. “They were all you, to me. All of them were you.” ― Megan Hart, Broken
“Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.” ― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and the Great World
“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
“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
“Do you girls have hope chests?' Lloyd asked.We certainly do.' I don't,' said Betsy. 'My husband and I are going to use paper plates and napkins.'Poor Joe!'Lucky Larry!” ― Maud Hart Lovelace (Carney's House Party), The Betsy-Tacy Treasury
“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
“Why didn’t you ever go to school, Joe, when you were as little as me?’‘Well, Pip,’ said Joe, taking up the poker, and settling himself to his usual occupation when he was thoughtful, of slowly raking the fire between the lower bars; ‘I’ll tell you. My father, Pip, he were given to drink, and when he were overtook with drink, he hammered away at my mother, most onmerciful. It were a’most the only hammering he did, indeed, ‘xcepting at myself. And he hammered at me with a wigour only to be equaled by the wigour with which he didn’t hammer at his anwil. – You’re a-listening and understanding Pip?’‘Yes, Joe.’‘’Consequence, my mother and me we ran away from my father, several times; and then my mother she’d go out to work, and she’d say, “Joe,” she’d say, “now, please God, you shall have some schooling, child,” and she’d put me to school. But my father were that good in his hart that he couldn’t abear to be without us. So he’d come with a most tremenjous crowd, and make such a row at the doors of the houses where we was, that they used to be obligated to have no more to do with us and to give us up to him. And then he took us home and hammered us. Which, you see, Pip,’ said Joe, pausing in his meditative raking of the fire and looking at me, ‘were a drawback on my learning.’Chapter 7” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“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.” ― maud hart lovelace, Betsy Was a Junior / Betsy and Joe
“We never let our people just go. (Joe)What are you? Wolfram and Hart? (Steele)Oh, no, sweetie, they just take your soul for service. We intend to take even more than that. (Tee)” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Bad Attitude
“We were always looking for reasons a woman might be murdered, other than our common gender. We want to blame the victim for what happened to her, when we know the problem is almost always men.” ― JoeAnn Hart, Stamford '76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s
“When the owner fired me, he said he was sorry, since he admired what I was trying to do. Really? What was it, exactly, that I was trying to do? Oh right. Something about equality.” ― JoeAnn Hart, Stamford '76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s
“After Commencement Day, the world!" Joe said. "With Betsy.” ― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Joe
“The second you give up is when you start to die. You have to fight to make it.” ― Joe Hart, The Last Girl
“One could say it is our destiny, our fate within the human condition to always hold onto hope of redemption even if it is the last thread that connects us to life.” ― Joe Hart, The Last Girl
“Sometimes,” Joe said after a bit, “it’s just easier to keep being what everyone expects you to be. Even if that’s what you’re not, anymore.” ― Megan Hart, Broken
“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
“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
“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
“From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories,” Joe said quietly. “They were all you, to me. All of them were you.” ― Megan Hart, Broken
“Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.” ― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and the Great World
“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
“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
“Do you girls have hope chests?' Lloyd asked.We certainly do.' I don't,' said Betsy. 'My husband and I are going to use paper plates and napkins.'Poor Joe!'Lucky Larry!” ― Maud Hart Lovelace (Carney's House Party), The Betsy-Tacy Treasury
“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
“Why didn’t you ever go to school, Joe, when you were as little as me?’‘Well, Pip,’ said Joe, taking up the poker, and settling himself to his usual occupation when he was thoughtful, of slowly raking the fire between the lower bars; ‘I’ll tell you. My father, Pip, he were given to drink, and when he were overtook with drink, he hammered away at my mother, most onmerciful. It were a’most the only hammering he did, indeed, ‘xcepting at myself. And he hammered at me with a wigour only to be equaled by the wigour with which he didn’t hammer at his anwil. – You’re a-listening and understanding Pip?’‘Yes, Joe.’‘’Consequence, my mother and me we ran away from my father, several times; and then my mother she’d go out to work, and she’d say, “Joe,” she’d say, “now, please God, you shall have some schooling, child,” and she’d put me to school. But my father were that good in his hart that he couldn’t abear to be without us. So he’d come with a most tremenjous crowd, and make such a row at the doors of the houses where we was, that they used to be obligated to have no more to do with us and to give us up to him. And then he took us home and hammered us. Which, you see, Pip,’ said Joe, pausing in his meditative raking of the fire and looking at me, ‘were a drawback on my learning.’Chapter 7” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“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.” ― maud hart lovelace, Betsy Was a Junior / Betsy and Joe
“We never let our people just go. (Joe)What are you? Wolfram and Hart? (Steele)Oh, no, sweetie, they just take your soul for service. We intend to take even more than that. (Tee)” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Bad Attitude
“We were always looking for reasons a woman might be murdered, other than our common gender. We want to blame the victim for what happened to her, when we know the problem is almost always men.” ― JoeAnn Hart, Stamford '76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s
“When the owner fired me, he said he was sorry, since he admired what I was trying to do. Really? What was it, exactly, that I was trying to do? Oh right. Something about equality.” ― JoeAnn Hart, Stamford '76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s
“After Commencement Day, the world!" Joe said. "With Betsy.” ― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Joe
“The second you give up is when you start to die. You have to fight to make it.” ― Joe Hart, The Last Girl
“One could say it is our destiny, our fate within the human condition to always hold onto hope of redemption even if it is the last thread that connects us to life.” ― Joe Hart, The Last Girl
