For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes.
Bess Streeter AldrichIt was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
Bess Streeter AldrichRegardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
Bess Streeter AldrichThey are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
Bess Streeter AldrichThere is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
Bess Streeter AldrichKatherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed.
Bess Streeter Aldrich