Quotes By Author: Louisa May Alcott

“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”

“My little girl, I would face a dozen storms far worse than this to keep your soul as stainless as snow; for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity, unless we watch and pray, and never think them too trivial to be resisted.”

“…wisely mingled poetry and prose.”

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

“Your father, Jo. He never loses patience,–never doubts or complains,–but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully, that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. He helped and comforted me, and showed me that I must try to practise all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. It was easier for your sakes than for my own; a startled or surprised look from one of you, when I spoke sharply, rebuked me more than any words could have done; and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.”

“…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.”

“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.”

“Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.”

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

“I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”

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

“It’s lovely to see people so happy.”

“Dear me! how happy and good we’d be, if we had no worries!”

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

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