People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.
Betty SmithIt doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.
Betty SmithAnd that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.
Betty Smith