A Long Fatal Love Chase Quotes

“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment," said Tempest with a bitter smile.
Law and custom I know nothing of, public opinion I despise, and shame and fear I defy, for everyone has a right to be happy in their own way.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Better destroy the body than the soul.'" ~Rosamond”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“A fit queen for that nest of roses was the human flower that adorned it, for a year of love and luxury had ripened her youthful beauty into a perfect bloom. Graceful by nature, art had little to do for her, and, with a woman’s aptitude, she had acquired the polish which society alone can give. Frank and artless as ever, yet less free in speech, less demonstrative in act; full of power and passion, yet still half unconscious of her gifts; beautiful with the beauty that wins the heart as well as satisfies the eye, yet unmarred by vanity or affectation. She now showed fair promise of becoming all that a deep and tender heart, an ardent soul and a gracious nature could make her, once life had tamed and taught her more.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“You love him still and struggle against your love, feeling that it will undo you. He knows this and he will tempt you by every lure he can devise, every deceit he can employ. Sorrow and sin will surely follow if you yield; happiness never can be yours with him; doubt, remorse and self-reproach will kill love, and a time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever. Oh, Agatha, be warned in time, do not listen to your own weak heart but to the conscience that nothing can bribe or silence.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Ah, if I could only feel assured that it was right and not a blind impulse of a weak woman's heart!'" ~Rosamond”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Suppose I broke away and left you, or made it impossible for you to stay. That I was base and false; in every way unworthy of your love, and it was clearly right for you to go, what would you do then?'

'Go away and --'

He interrupted with a triumphant laugh, 'Die as heroines always do, tender slaves that they are.'

'No, live and forget you,' was the unexpected reply.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“No, no! I detest, despise, hate and discard this man forever. My delusion is gone, I know him now, and nothing can restore love, respect or confidence. He is my evil genius, and long ago when as a reckless girl I said I'd sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom little I knew that I should be taken at my word in such fearful earnest. I've been happy, I've paid a high price for it, and now I have no desire but to expiate the impious wish by patience and submission.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Leave me in peace, the sight of you is abhorrent to me.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Her heart sunk within her, for the shadow of his presence seemed to fall darkly over all her future.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Mine first—mine last— mine even in the grave!”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“This added a subtle sting to the retribution already darkening over him, for he who had won and wasted love so wantonly all his life now pined for it with a longing which nothing could appease, and pined in vain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Fire, and deepen Rosamond's detestation by adding another murder to your list of crimes.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Surely there is some redress for me, some safety in this land of law and liberty. I claim entire freedom from this man's persecution; I will hide no longer, here I shall remain and let him molest me at his peril.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Mademoiselle, you are an angel!" exclaimed Vetrey. "Have no fear of further molestation, this gentleman's time is up, he'll never trouble you again for I shall guard him till he is shot tomorrow. A convict's doom, Mademoiselle, and from it there is no escape.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Yes, Father, I have played so many parts that I shall not fail now but enjoy the masquerade, since I have a partner in it,”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“I feel strong now, I enjoy the air, the motion, and the thought that each step takes me farther from that man gives me new power and spirit. It is dark and strange, but I have no fear.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Clear and strong as an actual presence, that remembrance flashed upon her in an instant, that example upheld her, and the true love defeated the false.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Utter his name again and I will take you at your word. In defending me he will forget he is a priest and teach you to respect and fear him as you never feared and respected man before. Say what you have to say and go.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“It was as if her own conscience had taken human shape, for his voice eloquently uttered the fears, the feelings that had filled her heart that night. She had wavered, for love was sweet and life looked desolate without it; but the example of this man who asked nothing for himself and was as true to his own soul as he would have her to hers, touched and inspired her with a brave desire to be worthy his respect, to emulate his virtue.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“It could not buy that of Ignatius," she interrupted with a look of triumph, for amidst so much deceit she felt a double gratitude that one man had been found true.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

“You will find that money can buy everything, even the conscience and integrity of a priest," began Tempest.”
― Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase