Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

"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."

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

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

"I like good strong words that mean something…"

"You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one."

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

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

"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."

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

"Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want."

"She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable."

"...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."

"...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."

"You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one."

"Conceit spoils the finest genius."

"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."