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"But when I saw you all so well and strong and full of happy plans, it was hard to feel that I could never be like you, and then I was miserable, Jo."

In some parallel world, Jo becomes Darth Vader to save Beth

"I don't believe I shall ever marry. I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man."

"I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient"

"I suppose it's natural to some people to please without trying, and others to always say and do the wrong thing in the wrong place."

"I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them. Why, Mother, Beth's eighteen, but we don't realize it, and treat her like a child, forgetting she's a woman."