71 Quotes by Maud Hart Lovelace

After all, you couldn’t go through life rolling your friendships into one gigantic snowball. You wanted different kinds of friendships, with different kinds of people.

Some characters become your friends for life. That’s how it was for me with Betsy and Tacy. – JUDY BLUME.

Three times! Three dull blows at Betsy’s heart. He must have ’phoned her twice before he came over to the Rays, and probably once after he left. She couldn’t remember that Tony had ever ’phoned her. He wasn’t a telephone addict as some of the boys and most of the girls were.

Our lives can hold just so much. If they’re filled with one thing, they can’t be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

And then we’ll go to Tiffany’s and get you a ring. And then – ” he turned swiftly to look into her fade – ” when can we get married?

We’re growing up,” Betsy said aloud. She wasn’t even sure she liked it. But it happened, and then it wasn’t irrevocable. There was nothing you could do about it except 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.

We’re growing up and I don’t like it,” said Tacy, as they say at Heinz’s later, drinking coffee.

Joe Willard turned from his study of the trees beyond the window and raised his hand. ‘Yes, Joe?’ Mr. Gaston said, changing his tone. ‘It is my opinion sir, that apple blossoms are pink.’ Mr. Gaston was silent, stunned. ‘Pinkish, rather.’ Joe continued. ‘I think Betsy’s word ‘rosy’ is excellent. They’re colored just enough to make the effect rosy.′ The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

How does a girl act with boys, exactly?” Tacy asked. “Oh,” said Betsy airily, “you just curl your hair and use a lot of perfume and act plagued when they tease you.