Betty Smith Inspirational Quotes (53)

The world was hers for the reading.

She had had the pain it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it

No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.

As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.