Bethany G.

“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!”
― Maud Hart Lovelace (Carney's House Party), The Betsy-Tacy Treasury

“Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?”
― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

“You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib