"It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside."
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"She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears."
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"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?"
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"Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again."
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"You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say."
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"The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright."
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"In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God."
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"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."
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"Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect."
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"Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?"
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"The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance."
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"Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe."
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"I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W."
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"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."
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"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!"
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"And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories."
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"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."
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"We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la."
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"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."
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"Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it."
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