Betty Smith Reading Quotations

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the something different from anyone else in the two families. It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.

From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

The world was hers for the reading.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.