Gabrielle Meyer > Gabrielle's Quotes

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“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

“Sam!” cried Carney. “I’m afraid I lost the flashlight, but…”
That was all she said for Sam took her in his arms. Holding her tightly he kissed her muddy face, not once but several times.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Carney's House Party

“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”
― C.S. Lewis; Inspirational Christian Library

“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. ”
― C.S. Lewis

“I don't know all you've done, but God knows. And even in the knowing, He chose to love you.”
― Michelle Griep, Gallimore

“John had been a footman nearly all of his adult life. He knew decorum and appropriate behavior for his situation. But when he glanced from one twin to another, he nearly ruined his reputation and self-respect forever with...a smile.”
― Sarah Brazytis, The Apprentices

“Endeavour to serve with such good will and attention to the interest of your employers, that they know they are blessed in having gotten such a good servant, one who serves, not with eye-service as a man-pleaser, but in simplicity of heart as a Christian.
- Samuel and Sarah Adams, The Complete Servant”
― Julie Klassen, The Maid of Fairbourne Hall

“Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy Was a Junior

“Carney was hatless and gloveless, wearing her pink linen. Sam looked at her more than once.
“its just because he likes pink,” she told herself.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Carney's House Party

“After Commencement Day, the world!" Joe said. "With Betsy.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Joe

“Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Joe