Quotes by Maud Hart Lovelace

Were growing up and I dont like it, said Tacy, as they say at Heinzs later, drinking coffee.

But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.

It looks like something out of Whittiers Snowbound, Julia said. Julia could always think of things like that to say.

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.

“Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other peoples luck.”

“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.”