Em Peterson

“They were very happy, even after they discovered that they couldn't live on love alone.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“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

“Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and sad and dreary.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“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