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"They were very happy, even after they discovered that they couldn't live on love alone."

"In spite of various very natural temptations to resent and retaliate, Amy adhered to her resolution all the next day, bent on conquering her enemy by kindness."

Halfway through 🥳
"The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping- their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlines death."

"So grouped, the curtain falls upon Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Whether it ever rises again, depends upon the reception given to the first act of the domestic drama, called
'Little Women.'"
Finished part 1

"The shadow of a real trouble had come, showing them how rich in sunshine their lives had been."

"There probably were a good many happy little girls in and about the city that day, but it is my private opinion that Amy was the happiest of all."

"The clocks were striking midnight, and the rooms were very still, as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter."

Stupid reading slump conquered (for now)
"'If you grow like him she won't be willing to have us frolic together as we do now.'
'Won't she?" asked Laurie, anxiously.
'No, she can't bear fashionable young men, and she'd shut us all up in bandboxes rather than have us associate with them.'
'Well, she needn't get out her bandboxes yet; I'm not a fashionable party, and don't mean to be.'"