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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Modern Classics)

It is April 1793 and the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold: the aristocrats are dead and the poor are fighting for bread in the streets. In a Paris swept by fear and hunger lives Gamelin, a revolutionary young artist appointed m

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Betty Smith (6)

“I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.”

— Betty Smith, amazon.com

Tagged: Yearning, Looking For Love, Hoping

“I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.”

— Betty Smith, amazon.com

Tagged: Need Someone, Wants Attention, love quotes

“And 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, amazon.com

Tagged: Same Personality, Understanding Another Person, Different Character

“I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.”

— Betty Smith, amazon.com

Tagged: Fall Out Of Love, Happy, Fear

“Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York.”

— Betty Smith, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books, Brooklyn

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”

— Betty Smith, amazon.com

Tagged: Perspective, Inspirational, Life, Happiness, travel