If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!

Liberty must not be abused.

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.

Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.