Emily

“...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. ”
― Willa Cather

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience