I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Jo couldn’t even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“There was a good deal of laughing, and kissing, and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home festivals so… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“It is so beautiful to be loved as Laurie loves me; he isn’t sentimental, doesn’t say much about it, but I see… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Give them all of my dear love and a kiss. Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“My Jo, you may say anything to your mother, for it is my greatest happiness and pride to feel that my girls… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“[F]or in this queer world of ours, fatherly and motherly hearts often beat warm and wise in the breasts of bachelor uncles… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“For in that sad yet happy hour, she had learned not only the bitterness of remorse and despair, but the sweetness of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Four little chests all in a row, Dim with dust, and worn by time, Four women, taught by weal and woe To… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way. — 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
