My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.

The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.

I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

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

The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.