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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5a51e6b | His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness and strength. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| fb861eb | you consider | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 66e9862 | I don't understand it. What can there be in a simple little story like that to make people praise it so?" she said, quite bewildered. "There is truth in it, Jo, that's the secret." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| da9c8f0 | No, Mother, it is better as it is, and I'm glad Amy has learned to love him. But you are right in one thing. I am lonely, and perhaps if Teddy had tried again, I might have said 'Yes,' not because I love him any more, but because I care more to be loved than when he went away. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 232c1ed | Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| e3fef04 | He did not say a word, but took the hand she offered him, and laid his face down on it for a minute, feeling that out of the grave of a boyish passion, there had risen a beautiful, strong friendship to bless them both. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ab6042e | I seldom ask questions of men, as they are not fond of gossip. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ae418af | garret | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 1b12241 | Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this! | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 20cd392 | Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. Hope and keep busy, and whatever happens, remember that you never can be fatherless. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 22bf35c | Not until months afterward did Jo understand how she had the strength of mind to hold fast to the resolution she had made when she decided that she did not love her boy, and never could. It was very hard to do, but she did it, knowing that delay was both useless and cruel. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| b4cadc5 | she won't wish us to give up everything. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 8f3989d | the big vases, that could not hide the vacancies her pretty | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| c97780d | So I did, Beth. Well, I think we are. For though we do have to work, we make fun of ourselves, | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 55b75af | Love is a great beautifier | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| bd9517e | But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| bfbbfaf | With tears and prayers and tender hands, Mother and sisters made her ready for the long sleep that pain would never mar again, seeing with grateful eyes the beautiful serenity that soon replaced the pathetic patience that had wrung their hearts so long, and feeling with reverent joy that to their darling death was a benignant angel, not a phantom full of dread. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| d87e1ce | Di wrestled with her knitting as if it were Fate, and she were paying off the grudge she owed | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 22d3455 | If Jo is a tomboy and Amy a goose, what | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 0cc28e8 | Mark my words, Jo, you'll go next. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 725570a | I wish we could wash from our hearts and souls The stains of the week away, And let water and air by their magic make Ourselves as pure as they. Then on the earth there would be indeed, A glorious washing day! | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 5366b2e | I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 6fc73cd | for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride. When | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 3b56a16 | you have found your style at last. You wrote with no thoughts of fame and money, and put your heart into it, | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 79326e3 | He never spoke of himself, and in a conversation with Miss Norton divulged the pleasing fact. From her Jo learned it, and liked it all the better because Mr. Bhaer had never told it. She felt proud to know that he was an honored Professor in Berlin, though only a poor language-master in America, and his homely, hard-working life was much beautified by the spice of romance which this discovery gave it. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ffa55b4 | Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect. Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, with a wild, "Ha! Ha!" "It's the best we've had yet," said Meg, as the dead villain sat up and rubbed" -- | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 151a5c9 | What lady do you think prettiest?" Said Sallie. "Margaret." "Which do you like the best?" | jo-march laurie little-women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 02c2980 | Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday. | philosophy | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 338ad11 | suit | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 18874bd | Ought they to smoke like that? | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 082adc0 | Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 2e445a4 | passionately | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| c17eaf5 | At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will be. At thirty they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact, and if sensible, console themselves by remembering that they have twenty more useful, happy years, in which they may be learning to grow old gracefully. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| b43f178 | Genius. Don't you wish you could give it to me, Laurie?" And she slyly smiled in his disappointed face." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| cf3d03a | operatic tragedy began. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 5df679a | Lotty would be privately dispatched with a batch of failures, which were to be concealed from all eyes in the convenient stomachs of the little Hummels. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 666c3b9 | mort, | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 4193536 | I'm glad of it, that's one of your foolish extravagances, sending flowers and things to girls for whom you don't care two pins," continued Jo reprovingly. "Sensible girls for whom I do care whole papers of pins won't let me send them 'flowers and things', so what can I do? My feelings need a 'vent'." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 9bb7219 | I'd rather stay here, thank you." "Well, you can't, there isn't room. Go and make yourself useful, since you are too big to be ornamental." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 903b970 | flying far out to sea, and happy all alone. Meg is the turtledove, | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| e26e864 | taking a remorseful satisfaction in the snowy walk and bitter wind. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 82233fb | AMY'S LECTURE DID Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| b6b4e36 | but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers? | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 09e690a | Opium was decadent. Opium was for grandfathers. | Cynthia Palmer |