Little Women Quotes

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

~ Louisa May Alcott

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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

~ Louisa May Alcott

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

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

~ Louisa May Alcott

…feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.

~ Louisa May Alcott

I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands.They're not empty now.

~ Louisa May Alcott

…wisely mingled poetry and prose.

~ Louisa May Alcott

I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms, Russian love triangles, and the March sisters couldn't have been further away from the trailer park.

~ Heather Demetrios

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

~ Louisa May Alcott

In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…

~ Louisa May Alcott

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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

He was neither rich nor great, young nor handsome, - in no respect what is called fascinating, imposing or brilliant; and yet he was as attractive as a genial fire, and people seemed to gather about him as naturally as about a warm hearth.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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

~ Louisa May Alcott

I wish I had no heart, it aches so…

~ Louisa May Alcott

I like good strong words that mean something…

~ Louisa May Alcott

…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…

~ Louisa May Alcott

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

~ Louisa May Alcott

…possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Mr. Bhaer saw the drops on her cheeks, ... The sight seemed to touch him very much, for suddenly stooping down, he asked in a tone that meant a great deal, Heart's dearest, why do you cry?Now, if Jo had not been new to this sort of thing she would have said she wasn't crying, had a cold in her head, or told any other feminine fib proper to the occasion. Instead of which, that undignified creature answered, with an irrepressible sob, Because you are going away.Ach, mein Gott, that is so good! cried Mr. Bhaer, managing to clasp his hands in spite of the umbrella and the bundles, Jo, I haf nothing but much love to gif you. I came to see if you could care for it, and I waited to be sure that I was something more than a friend. Am I? Can you make a little place in your heart for old Fritz? he added, all in one breath.Oh, yes! said Jo, and he was quite satisfied, for she folded both hands over his arm, and looked up at him with an expression that plainly showed how happy she would be to walk through life beside him, even though she had no better shelter than the old umbrella, if he carried it.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Smiling face of every little girl is the signature of God’s presence.

~ Amit Ray

Don't try to make me grow up before my time…

~ Louisa May Alcott

…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

~ Louisa May Alcott

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…

~ Louisa May Alcott

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…

~ Louisa May Alcott

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

~ Louisa May Alcott

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Who are your heroes? asked Jo.Grandfather and Napoleon.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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