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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. — Louisa May Alcott

... feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them. — Louisa May Alcott

Because, what?" "You won't tell?" "Never!" "Well, I have a bad trick — Louisa May Alcott

Tail wagging like a windscreen wiper in a downpour. — Louisa Bennet

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this. — Louisa May Alcott

I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy. — Louisa May Alcott

Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe ... — Louisa May Alcott

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us. — Louisa May Alcott

It's so dreadful to be poor! — Louisa May Alcott

Will and I had been to each other, the way I felt that no person in the world had ever understood me like he did or ever would again — Jojo Moyes

I'd take it manfully, and be respected if I couldn't be loved — Louisa May Alcott

I was wondering how you and Amy get on together. — Louisa May Alcott

CHAPTER FOURTEEN SECRETS Jo — 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

We each are young, we each have a heart, Oh, why should we thus stand coldly apart — 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

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood. — Louisa May Alcott

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent. — Louisa May Alcott

Leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best. — Louisa May Alcott

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial. — Louisa May Alcott

And best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. — Louisa May Alcott

He was astounded, sometimes, by the fluid articulacy of his own fury. — Louisa Young

And I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. — 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

Is that my boy?'
As sure as this is my girl! — 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

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. — Louisa May Alcott

Grumbling, as things are at present arranged in this world, does not always, nor I might say often, do good ... — Mary Louisa Molesworth

If you behaved properly, they would, but knowing you like their nonsense, they keep it up, and then you blame them. — Louisa May Alcott

Where the heart is the mind works best. — Louisa May Alcott

Here's Meg married and a mamma, Amy flourishing away at Paris, and Beth in love. I'm the only one that has sense enough to keep out of mischief. — 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

You have been running, Jo. How could you? When will you stop such romping ways? said Meg reprovingly. — 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

... and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam. — Louisa May Alcott

laughter. "Glad to find you so merry, my girls," said a cheery — Louisa May Alcott

take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them. — Louisa May Alcott

It's not the bloody carrots that upset me. It's having them sneaked into my food by a madwoman who addresses the cutlery as Mr and Mrs Fork. — Jojo Moyes

strength and beauty must go hand in hand — Louisa May Alcott

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you. — Louisa May Alcott

Unlocking the treasuries of real home love and mutual helpfulness, which the poorest may possess, and the richest cannot buy. — Louisa May Alcott

The more one gets the more one wants — 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

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman. — Louisa May Alcott

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal. — Louisa May Alcott

For his Atlanta came panting up with flying hair, bright eyes, ruddy cheeks, and no signs of dissatisfaction in her face. — Louisa May Alcott

Do you consider shoes unhealthy? he asked, surveying the socks with respectful interest — Louisa May Alcott

Send me all the advice you like. I'll use as much as I can. — 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

But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress. — Louisa May Alcott

I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle March died. — Louisa May Alcott

I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied. — Louisa May Alcott

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen. — Louisa May Alcott

Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them? — Louisa May Alcott

... I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo ... — Louisa May Alcott

His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness and strength. — Louisa May Alcott

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me. — Louisa May Alcott

Love will make you show your heart someday... — Louisa May Alcott

He was a fine man, my dear, but what is better, he was a brave and an honest one, and I was proud to be his friend. — Louisa May Alcott

Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better. — Louisa May Alcott

The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed. — Louisa May Alcott

At this command, to Rose's great dismay, six more hands were offered, and it was evident that she was expected to shake them all. — Louisa May Alcott

[It may be true that] men never know a pretty thing when they see it. [But men do] know a lady when they see one. — Louisa May Alcott

I'm here, hold on to me, Jo, dear!" - Laurie — Louisa May Alcott

We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't. — 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

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others. — Louisa May Alcott

If Jo is a tomboy and Amy a goose, what — Louisa May Alcott

The sweetness of self-denial and self-control, — Louisa May Alcott

I sell my children, and though they feed me, they don't love me as hers do. — Louisa May Alcott

Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient. — Louisa May Alcott

I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship. — Louisa May Alcott

was a long upper hall full — Louisa May Alcott

I wish I had a horse; then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath." Jo — Louisa May Alcott

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. — Louisa May Alcott

... she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. — Louisa May Alcott

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day. — Louisa May Alcott

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything. — Louisa May Alcott

For she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy. — Louisa May Alcott

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. — 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

You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone. — Louisa May Alcott

Beautifully gratified, said Mrs. Bhaer, taking Teddy's — Louisa May Alcott

Tell me what happens next, after my body has frozen. When I can't communicate. What will I be? — Louisa Hall

It's lovely to see people so happy. — Louisa May Alcott

It's amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them. — Louisa May Alcott

I don't see why God made any night; day is so much pleasanter ... — Louisa May Alcott

The great novelist vibrated between two decanters with the regularity of a pendulum. — Louisa May Alcott

Do any of us understand ourselves? all the different selves that each of us is? — Mary Louisa Molesworth

Here! answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found her — Louisa May Alcott

The trouble of overseeing a fidgety child when she wanted — Louisa May Alcott

Other people", Rose thought. "Other people and their bloody love. — Louisa Young

I could have been a great many things. — Louisa May Alcott

Don't worry about Sian," Louisa said, "things will get better."
"What, she'll stop hitting me?"
"No, but you'll stop bruising so easily. — Dylan Perry

It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief. — Louisa May Alcott

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution. — Louisa May Alcott

You think then, that it is better to have a few duties and live a little for others, do you? — Louisa May Alcott

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues
when they have girls to manage — Louisa May Alcott

Louisa, is your life always like this? — Jojo Moyes