Sarah

“She silently excepted his challenge to the tournament so often held between man and woman- a tournament where the keen tongue is the lance, pride the shield, passion the fiery steed, and the hardest heart the winner of the prize.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott

“I abhorred weakness of any kind but most particularly in my tea.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Curious Beginning

“If it had been me, I would have done the same thing, remained silent, then died.”
― Richard Matheson, Somewhere In Time

“A fat easy gentleman gave me several bits of paper, with coupons attached, with a warning not to separate them which instantly inspired me with a yearning to pluck them apart, and see what came of it.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches