She felt as if she had stabbed her dearest friend, and when he left her without a look behind him, she knew that the boy Laurie never would come again.
Jo’s ambition was to do something very splendid. What it was, she had no idea as yet, but left it for time to tell her, and meanwhile, found her greatest affliction in the fact that she couldn’t read, run and ride as much as she liked.
If you loved me, Jo, I should be a perfect saint, for you could make me anything you like.
The good and dear people always do die.
There are a good many hard times in this life of ours, but we can always bear them if we ask help n the right way.
The best of us have a spice of perversity in us, especially when we are young and in love.
Stay where you are, Jo. I’m errand boy for this establishment.
But a bird sang blithely on a budding bough, close by, the snowdrops blossomed freshly at the window, and the spring sunshine streamed in like a benediction over the placid face upon the pillow, a face so full of painless peace that those who loved it best smiled through their tears, and thanked God that Beth was well at last.
In the possibility of a loyalty to the virtues which makes men manliest in good women’s eyes. If it is a feminine delusion, leave us to enjoy it while we may, for without it half the beauty and the romance of life is lost, and sorrowful forebodings would embitter all our hopes of the brave, tenderhearted little lads, who still love their mothers better than themselves and are not ashamed to own it.
She wasn’t a particularly handsome person, but mothers are always lovely to their children, and the girls thought that the gray cloak and unfashionable bonnet covered the most splendid woman in the world.
The only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of age, rank, age, or color.
If I was a boy, we’d run away together, and have a capital time; but as I’m a miserable girl, I must be proper, and stop at home. Don’t tempt me, Teddy, it’s a crazy plan.
That’s loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it,” said Meg, as they set out their presents while their mother was upstairs collecting clothes for the poor Hummels.
A kiss for a blow is always best, though it’s not very easy to give it sometimes,” said her mother, with the air of one who had learned the difference between preaching and practicing.
Katy don’t amoose me; and I must be amoosed, ‘cause I ‘m fwactious; mamma said I was!” sobbed Maud, evidently laboring under the delusion that fractiousness was some interesting malady.
Meg slipped the note into her pocket, as a sort of talisman against envy, vanity, and false pride; for the few loving words had done her good, and the flowers cheered her up by their beauty.
They haf no right to put poison in the sugarplum, and let the small ones eat it.
Then let me advise you to take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them.
Fighting faults isn’t easy as I know and a cheery word kind of gives a lift.
Beth, if you don’t keep these horrid cats down cellar I’ll have them drowned,” exclaimed Meg angrily.