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“Books allow everyone a traveler’s education,”
― Erin Michelle Sky, The Wendy

“Dogs always know.”
― Erin Michelle Sky, The Wendy

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

“To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on”
― Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

“No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles...”
― Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

“A very precious and lovely part, but not all,” continued Rose. “Neither should it be for a woman: for we’ve got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I’m sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won’t have anything to do with love till I prove that I am something besides a housekeeper and baby-tender!”
― Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

“The fun and fame do not last, while the memory of a real helper is kept green long after poetry is forgotten and music silent.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

“Do you consider shoes unhealthy?" he asked, surveying the socks with respectful interest”
― Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

“for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

“Neither should it be for a woman: for we’ve got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

“Finish it if you choose only remember, my girl, that one may read at forty what is unsafe at twenty, and that we never can be too careful what food we give that precious yet perilous thing called imagination.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

“My little girl, I would face a dozen storms far worse than this to keep your soul as stainless as snow; for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity, unless we watch and pray, and never think them too trivial to be resisted.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to Eight Cousins

“If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins

“It is apt to be so, and it is hard to bear; for, though we do not want trumpets blown, we do like to have our little virtues appreciated, and cannot help feeling disappointed if they are not.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins

“It is apt to be so, and it is hard to bear; for, though we do not want trumpets blown, we do like to have out little virtues appreciated, and cannot help feeling disappointed if they are not.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins

“It does seem to me that some one might write stories that should be lively, natural and helpful tales in which the English should be good, the morals pure, and the characters such as we can love in spite of the faults that all may have.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins

“So you see [the act of teaching] teaches me also, and is as good as a general review of what I've learned, in a pleasanter way than going over it alone.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins

“A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins

“It is necessary to do right; it is not necessary to be happy.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins

“Time stopped for Holly the day of the car crash. She's been defying death, defying time, for all these years & she's not going to stop now.”
― Liz Michalski, Darling Girl