“I suppose all moms have an idea who they hope their daughters will be. Like a connect-the-dots picture where you think you know what shape it will become. But then it's the daughter who draws the lines, and she might connect the dots you didn't intend, making a whole different picture. So I've gotta trust the dots she's given me, and she's gotta trust me to draw the picture myself.””
“Well, anyhow, I’m a boy,””
“suspecting that Dorothy had put it there purposely. By and by everything was quiet again, when another gong went off.””
“It’s something I haven’t experienced in so long, it’s damn near foreign, but there’s no doubt as to what’s causing it. Hope.””
“This was the pain of being happy, something she hadn't felt since she was a girl, when the future had been full of hope and the world had been wonderful and all life's possibilities lay ahead. This was the pain of light and beauty and a man's tender kiss. It was the burn in your eyes when you looked into the bright, shining sun, and the pinch in your chest when you saw the first green shoots of springtime, and the lump in your throat when you heard the sound of a newborn baby's cry. It was life, life, life.””
“There was fear, of course. That was always with her, something she'd accepted and learned to live with a long time ago. But, right beside it, other emotions were pushing up, fighting for space and light and air. Things like excitement and desire, longing and hope. Agony and uncertainty. Things that made fear seem almost comfortable, like broken-in pair of leather shoes or a perfectly fitted glove. Fear, at least, was familiar.””
Laura Lee Hope was a pseudonym employed by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a prolific publishing organization known for creating beloved children's literature. The name first appeared in 1904 with the intr...
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