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“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”

Louisa May Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott, her father, in Concord Days (1872), p. 124 : "Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. But if one does not stay while staying, better let him go where he is gone the while."
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“I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

“I must know where you are, but I will not molest nor betray you till the time arrives. Go where you like, assume what disguise you choose, do what you please, except die or marry. I'll stand off and watch the play, but I must follow. I like the chase, it is exciting, novel and absorbing. I have tried and tried of other amusements, this satisfies me and I am in no haste to end it.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

“The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood, Fan.”

Louisa May Alcott book An Old-Fashioned Girl

An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Ch. 13 : The Sunny Side; this has often been quoted as "Helping one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood."

“In vain she told herself that he was unworthy any woman's trust and love, still the unconquerable sentiment that once made her happiness now remained to become her torment.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

“Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.”

Louisa May Alcott book An Old-Fashioned Girl

An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Ch. 13 : The Sunny Side

“Suppose I broke away and left you, or made it impossible for you to stay. That I was base and false; in every way unworthy of your love, and it was clearly right for you to go, what would you do then?"
"Go away and–"
He interrupted with a triumphant laugh, "Die as heroines always do, tender slaves as they are.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

"No, live and forget you", was the unexpected reply.
Phillip and Rosamund, p. 46.
A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

“Suppose I broke away and left you, or made it impossible for you to stay. That I was base and false; in every way unworthy of your love, and it was clearly right for you to go, what would you do then?”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

“'In the fitful light of the dusky hall the newcomer's face suddenly appeared fiery-eyed and menacing, and, glancing at a portrait of Mephistopheles, Rosamond exclaimed, "Why, you are the very image of Meph--"”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

“I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Amy, in Ch. 42 : All Alone
Little Women (1868)

“No, I never wish that. I don't intend to die till I've enjoyed my life. Everyone has a right to happiness and sooner or later I will have it. Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

“Housekeeping ain't no joke.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women (1868), Ch. 11 : Experiments

“I am more than half-persuaded that I am a man's soul put by some freak of nature into a woman's body...because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.”

Louisa May Alcott

From an interview with poet and critic Louise Chandler Moulton, 1883.
Source: [Alberghene, Janice, Clark, Beverly, Little Women and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays, 2013, 1999, 9781138798977, Routledge]

“I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.”

Louisa May Alcott

Early Diary kept at Fruitlands, 1843. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38049/38049-h/38049-h.htm <br class="br">Life, Letters, and Journals. (1898)