Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I agree not to expect anything from Mother or you, but I do want to buy Undine and Sintran for myself. I've… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Christie loved books; and the attic next her own was full of them. To this store she found her way by a… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“…Mrs. Jo sat smiling over her book as she built castles in the air, just as she used to do when a… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“The dim, dusty room, with the busts staring down from the tall bookcases, the cozy chairs, the globes, and best of all,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may be seen on the Promenade des Anglais—a charming place, for the… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“Please could I say one word?" was the question three times repeated before a rough head boobed out from the grotto of books in… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“I read somewhere that every inch of rope used in the British Navy has a strand of red in it, so that wherever a… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“Chance words spoken in kindness often help amazingly; and that's what old people are here for -- else their experience is of little use.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
Oft in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high, When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the owl's shrill… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“ "I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the world within." ” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
