
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Each boy as he spoke knew that he was lying. Yet he believed what the other boys said about the horse.
Betty Smith • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Honesty is casting bright light on your own experience; truth is casting it on the experiences of all,
Betty Smith • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Jo March of Little Women is one, the eponymous Anne of Green Gables another, Betsy Ray of the beloved Betsy-Tacy books a third.
Betty Smith • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Honesty is casting bright light on your own experience; truth is casting it on the experiences of all,
Betty Smith • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.
Betty Smith • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
The difference was that Flossie Gaddis was starved about men and Sissy was healthily hungry about them. And what a difference that made.
Betty Smith • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
For quite a while, Francie had been spelling out letters, sounding them and then putting the sounds together to mean a word. But one day, she looked at a page and the word “mouse” had instantaneous meaning. She looked at the word, and the picture of a gray mouse scampered through her mind. She looked further and when she saw “horse,” she heard him
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