Pollyanna Grows Up

“But you only have to live one minute at a time, Ruth, and any one can endure anything for one minute at a time!””

— Eleanor H. Porter

“But, poor little kid, it's too bad you should find it out - so soon.""Find out what?""That the lonesomest place in all the world is in a crowd in a big city.””

— Eleanor H. Porter

“Aunt Polly is all stirred up over it. You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?" Mrs. Carew laughed suddenly. (22)””

— Eleanor H. Porter

“troubles are poor things to hug. They've got too many prickers.””

— Eleanor H. Porter

“I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.””

— Eleanor H. Porter

“you know you never know how much you use things, till you don't have 'em. And eyes, too. Did you ever think what a lot you do with eyes? I didn't till I went to the Sanatorium. There was a lady there who had just got blind the year before. I tried to get her to play the game”

— Eleanor H. Porter

“I don't see how you can find anything about this poor-people business to be glad for. Of course we can be glad for ourselves that we aren't poor like them; but whenever I'm thinking how glad I am for that, I get so sorry for them that I CAN'T be glad any longer. Of course we COULD be glad there were poor folks, because we could help them. But if we DON'T help them, where's the glad part of that coming in?””

— Eleanor H. Porter

“It's a bother, of course, when folks do want you all the time, isn't it?”

— Eleanor H. Porter

“Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem;  There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground  But holds some joy, of silence or of sound.””

— Eleanor H. Porter