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“A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“… and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Strong convictions precede great actions.”

Louisa May Alcott

“We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.”

Louisa May Alcott book Jo's Boys

Source: Jo's Boys

“Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want.
~Amy March~”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!”

Louisa May Alcott

“The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.”

Louisa May Alcott book Jo's Boys

Source: Jo's Boys

“[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.”

Louisa May Alcott book Eight Cousins

Source: Eight Cousins

“…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.”

Louisa May Alcott book Jack and Jill: A Village Story

Source: Jack and Jill

“Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women