229 Quotes by Laura Ingalls Wilder

But it had been a wonderful day, the most wonderful day in her whole life. She thought about the beautiful lake, and the town she had seen, and the big store full of so many things. She held the pebbles carefully in her lap, and her candy heart wrapped carefully in her handkerchief until she got home and could put it away to keep always. It was too pretty to eat.

Then the fire was shining on the hearth, the cold and the dark and the wild beasts were all shut out, and Jack the brindle bulldog and Black Susan the cat lay blinking at the flames in the fireplace. Ma sat in her rocking chair, sewing by the light.

Little rabbits, you know, always have games together before they go to bed.

Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand still.

Why, I guess you can,” Ma said doubtfully. She did not like to see women working in the fields. Only foreigners did that. Ma and her girls were Americans, above doing men’s work.

At first the splashes of cream showed thick and smooth around the little hole.

When a man undertakes a job, he has to stick to it till he finishes it. If.

Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was named Susan.

Where’s my little half-pint of sweet cider half drunk up?