Em Peterson

“You'll get over this after a while, and find some lovely accomplished girl, who will adore you, and make a fine mistress for your fine house. I shouldn't. I'm homely and awkward and odd and old, and you'd be ashamed of me, and we should quarrel—we can't help it even now, you see—and I shouldn't like elegant society and you would, and you'd hate my scribbling, and I couldn't get on without it, and we should be unhappy, and wish we hadn't done it, and everything would be horrid!”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women / Stage 3

“All these years, they’ve been like two little plants sharing the same plot of soil, growing around one another, contorting to make room, taking certain unlikely positions.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Yours, Mother? Why, you are never angry!" And for the moment Jo forgot remorse in surprise. "I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo, but I have learned not to show it, and I still hope to learn not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do so.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I thought you'd be pleased.'
'At the idea of anybody coming to take Meg away? No, thank you.'
'You'll feel better about it when somebody comes to take you away.'
'I'd like to see any one try it,' cried Jo, fiercely.
'So should I!' and Laurie chuckled at the idea.”
― Lousia May Alcott, Little Women