Amanda

“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“Underneath my outside face
There's a face that none can see.
A little less smiley,
A little less sure,
But a whole lot more like me.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience