Tomorrow Will Be Better Quotes

“Oh well, this is only temporary. Everything will be better someday. I'll make it better. After all, I'm young yet.”
― Betty Smith, Tomorrow Will Be Better

“Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.”
― Betty Smith, Tomorrow Will Be Better

“Hope ever urges on, and tells us tomorrow will be better.”
― Betty Smith, Tomorrow Will Be Better

“I'd rather have only one good thing than a whole lot just good enough.”
― Betty Smith, Tomorrow will be better

“А, може, думала дівчинка, воно й ліпше, що все на землі влаштоване саме так. Щоб відтінити сліпуче сяйво сонця в зеніті, потрібні темні каламутні річки.”
― Бетти Смит, Tomorrow Will Be Better

“THEY SAY, THOUGHT Margy, that when a person suffers grief or pain, it makes them nobler in character. That’s not true. Not in my case, anyhow. When things were right with me it was easy to pretend people always meant well and easy to overlook mean things said and done. But after you go through something bad you realize that all the rosy ideas you had about things and people were childish make-believe. Or it could be that after suffering something you don’t have enough feeling left to pretend to yourself that it’s a right world. Or could it be that suffering wipes all foolishness out of you and brings you up to the truth and the truth is that a lot of people are small and cruel?”
― Betty Smith, Tomorrow Will Be Better

“They grow up learning to be glad just to have a roof over their head and something to eat. They figure they get a break when they get a job—any old job just so it pays a few dollars. Because they didn’t have a doll or tin soldiers or skates when they were kids they grow up figuring they got no right to expect anything at all but the chance to work so that they might live and to live so that they might work. And people ought to be allowed to expect a little more out of life than that.”
― Betty Smith, Tomorrow Will Be Better

“Tomorrow—next month—next year. Everything was always going to be better in the future. And suddenly the future had come. It was a brief present. Too soon it would merge into a past to be remembered.”
― Betty Smith, Tomorrow Will Be Better

“He began getting the feeling that he was somebody after all; that this quiet girl knew of all the potentialities within him. And so the twenty-year-old boy thought that he had fallen in love with her. And because Margy was all ready to fall in love with someone—anyone, and because she was sorry for him and had a woman-need to save someone from hurt, and because at the moment of his tiny crucifixion she had been able to stand at his side and lessen a bit the ugly impact of man’s thoughtless inhumanity to man, she felt a warm, protective glow toward the boy. And, as women are so prone to do, she mistook this protective glow for love.”
― Betty Smith, Tomorrow Will Be Better

“She’d given little thought to any world outside her own. She had been born in a certain environment—had taken it for granted. Her kind of people were different from each other in small things but alike in the fundamentals. Some were kinder than others; some meaner. A lot were poorer than most; a few better off than their fellows. Some were ambitious and a lot didn’t care about anything except living from day to day. She knew some who seemed happy and she knew too many who complained all the time. But all were confined in the same rigid frame that boxed in her life. The only difference among the people she knew was that some squirmed more than others in the box.”
― Betty Smith, Tomorrow Will Be Better

“If it had been a girl, Margy reasoned, someone would warn her sooner or later not to grow up like her mother. But no one would talk like that to a boy. And even if they did, a boy wouldn't care as much as a girl would”
― Betty Smith, Tommorow Will be Better

“If it had been a girl, Margy reasoned, someone would warn her sooner or later not to grow up like her mother. But no one would talk like that to a boy. And even if they did, a boy wouldn't care as much as a girl would.”
― Betty Smith, Tommorow Will be Better