Quotes by Maud Hart Lovelace

Maud Hart Lovelace

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.

Memories

Wish

Yellow

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

Book

Coats

World

Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.

Home

Please

War

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.

Corn

Rays

Said

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!

Girl

Husband

Lucky

Good things come, but they’re never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

Good Things

Perfect

Twists

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.

Bigger

Remember

Years

I’m finished with something, but I’m not beginning anything. That’s wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.

Finished

Ought

Something New

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

Silence

Sunset

Three

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.

Pages

Running

Writing

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Believe

Bigger

Book

Boys

Coats

Corn

Depth

Ears

Eye

Finished

Flower

Found

Games

Girl

Good Things

Growing Up

Hair

Heart

Home

Honesty

Husband

June

Kindness

Library

Life

Lonely

Lucky

Mean

Memories

Might

Numbers

Ought

Pages

People

Perfect

Please

Rays

Remember

Running

Sadness

Said

Shining

Silence

Silly

Snow

Something New

Spring

Stars

Substance

Summer

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Maud Hart Lovelace

Maud Hart Lovelace

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.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.

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.

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!

Good things come, but they’re never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

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.

I’m finished with something, but I’m not beginning anything. That’s wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

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.

Get Social with TBU

Topics by Maud Hart Lovelace

Popular Tools

The Future Blueprint

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

The Autobiography

The Behaviour Diary

The Dating Diary

The Relationship Therapist

Menu

Menu