“If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place. - Marmee”
Louisa May Alcott“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn’t genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women“The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women“Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women“I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women“…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women“Don't try to make me grow up before my time…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women“…possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women“I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women“I like good strong words that mean something…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women“It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Men