Jo-s-boys Quote by Louisa May Alcott Download Open image ““…he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self…”” — Louisa May Alcott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jo-s-boys Louisa-may-alcott
“Then he left her there, standing along, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“often she had seemed to herself to be moving among those vanished figures of old books and pictures, an invisible ghost among the living,… — Virginia Wolf Copy Share Image
“She stood in one smooth motion, surprisingly pale where the sun not touch her, slender and hard-muscled, yet with roundnesses and softnesses that haunted… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“There he was, just as she saw him: the shadow of someone she had never met.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“I was following a phantom in my mind, whose shadowy form had taken shape at last. Her features were blurred, her coloring indistinct, the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“She herself did not seem quite real. She was pale and almost transparent, the victim I used for my own enjoyment in dreams.” — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.” — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
“He is a ghost. He is from some other world. He is Papa, Madame Manec, Etienne; he is everyone who has left her finally… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“You could see the skeleton behind the man, and almost the ghost behind the skeleton.” — Thomas Hardy 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
“Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“The youngest, aged twelve, could not conceal her disappointment, and turned away, feeling as so many of us have felt when we discover that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo…” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“…she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Don't suggest that we are growing old, my Lord. We have only bloomed; and a very nice bouquet we make with our buds about… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Don't take it away! It's only a fancy, but a man must love something…” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“…courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration…” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
