“It's very singular how hard it is to manage your mind,' said Demi, clasping his hands round his knees, and looking up… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies… — 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
“Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“…if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I don't see why God made any night; day is so much pleasanter…” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“…and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam.” — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image