Jo-s-boys Quote by Louisa May Alcott Download Open image ““…she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg.”” — Louisa May Alcott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jo-s-boys Louisa-may-alcott
“God forgive her, but underneath the smiles and the good job and the great family, she was tired. Desperately tired. Tired to the point… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
“Meg often slept with men she didn't want to sleep with: she didn't know how to say no. More precisely, she didn't know she… — Caroline Knapp 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 the strength… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“She didn’t see me because of the reflection on the store windows, and she wouldn’t know me in this car anyway. In fact, she… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“What do you want of me, Meghan?" he asked, a low thread of anguish flickering below the surface. Tears blurred my vision, all the… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“She did not realize it herself, but she had so long been accustomed to wanting what she did not have, that to state offhand… — Eleanor H. Porter Copy Share Image
“You may say that I had gone to ask Megan to marry me in an absurdly complacent frame of mind and that I deserved… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Meg’s eyes were too bright. “I wish human beings couldn’t have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“I could almost feel Meghan against me, shaking with sobs as she mourned her Winter prince. I could feel my arms around her as… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“She’d always been one of those girls who wanted what anyone else had, even if she didn’t want it.” — Gillian Flynn 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
“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
“…growing pale and sober with the thought that her fate was soon to be decided; for, like all young people, she was sure that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
