Louisa May Alcott: Likeness

“… and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.”

“I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue. You'll find that is true, Rose, when you know the world better.”

“Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?"
"Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking
mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.”

“Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.”

“I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.”

“… for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.”

“When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…”

“But, like all happiness, it did not last long…”

“I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.”

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

“I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.”

“John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!”

“We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.”