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“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”

Louisa May Alcott

Variant: Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

“Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."

"They're not empty now.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.”

Louisa May Alcott

“I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.”

Louisa May Alcott

“Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“… and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Woman work a great many miracles.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“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 book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Men

Source: Little Men

“I hate ordinary people!”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women