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And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace ...
— Louisa May Alcott
The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
— Louisa May Alcott
... marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
— Louisa May Alcott
I hate ordinary people!
— Louisa May Alcott
... feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.
— Louisa May Alcott
I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
— Louisa May Alcott
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow ...
— Louisa May Alcott
... for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.
— Louisa May Alcott
Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe ...
— Louisa May Alcott
Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret ...
— Louisa May Alcott
... for action is always easier than quiet waiting.
— Louisa May Alcott
That was all I wanted! whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.
— Louisa May Alcott
Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.
— Louisa May Alcott
Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it ...
— Louisa May Alcott
Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
— Louisa May Alcott
If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it ...
— Louisa May Alcott
... trying to extinguish the brilliant hopes that blazed up a word of encouragement.
— Louisa May Alcott
... what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
— Louisa May Alcott
... thirst is harder to bear than hunger, heat, or cold.
— Louisa May Alcott
... she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg.
— Louisa May Alcott
... he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self ...
— Louisa May Alcott
When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least ...
— Louisa May Alcott
I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world ...
— Louisa May Alcott
Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see.
— Louisa May Alcott
... she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
— Louisa May Alcott
... in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.
— Louisa May Alcott
... had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done.
— Louisa May Alcott
Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.
— Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott is right. An extraordinary girl can't have an ordinary life. Don't judge yourself. Love yourself.
— Caroline Kepnes
I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully ...
— Louisa May Alcott
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me ...
— Louisa May Alcott
I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.
— Louisa May Alcott
I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
— Louisa May Alcott
Never take advice!
— Louisa May Alcott
Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants ...
— Louisa May Alcott
I like adventures, and I'm going to find some.
— Louisa May Alcott
... possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.
— Louisa May Alcott
Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?
— Louisa May Alcott
... a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.
— Louisa May Alcott
... I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.
— Louisa May Alcott
... proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
— Louisa May Alcott
... courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration ...
— Louisa May Alcott
Don't take it away! It's only a fancy, but a man must love something ...
— Louisa May Alcott
Perhaps it would have been better if he had killed me; my life is spoilt.
— Louisa May Alcott
... the violin - that most human of all instruments ...
— Louisa May Alcott
... Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
— Louisa May Alcott
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
— Louisa May Alcott
Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally ...
— Louisa May Alcott
To the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now.
— Louisa May Alcott
... on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
— Louisa May Alcott
If every one agreed, we should never get on.
— Louisa May Alcott
... misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
— Louisa May Alcott
... and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam.
— Louisa May Alcott
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.
— Louisa May Alcott
... I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo ...
— Louisa May Alcott
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her ...
— Louisa May Alcott
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied ... strength and beauty must go together.
— Louisa May Alcott
... having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay ...
— Louisa May Alcott
We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be.
— Louisa May Alcott
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
— Louisa May Alcott
It's lovely to see people so happy.
— Louisa May Alcott
I don't see why God made any night; day is so much pleasanter ...
— Louisa May Alcott
Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.
— Louisa May Alcott
So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
— Louisa May Alcott
... she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
— Louisa May Alcott
... the little girls wore a grave, troubled expression, as if sorrow was a new experience to them.
— Louisa May Alcott
Let the world know you are alive!
— Abigail May Alcott
I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that ...
— Louisa May Alcott
Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
— Louisa May Alcott
I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
— Louisa May Alcott
... it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.
— Louisa May Alcott
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— Louisa May Alcott
Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.
— Louisa May Alcott
... that's what old people are here for, - else their experience is of little use.
— Louisa May Alcott
Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
— Louisa May Alcott
By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper) ...
— Louisa May Alcott
... because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
— Louisa May Alcott
We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
— Louisa May Alcott
... we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people ...
— Louisa May Alcott
