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Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

Book by Louisa May Alcott · 14 quotes · Ifs, Little Women, Long

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Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan… Quotes

“But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?”

“I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”

“Go now and wash yourself first, for the sun will laugh at you if he sees how dirty you are.”

“Flowers are made to bloom in the sun and not to be shut up in an apron.”

“If you have a sorrow that you cannot tell to anyone, you can go to our Father in Heaven.”

“Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.”

“Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.”

“I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.”

“The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.”

“...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.”

“Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.”

“A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.”

“Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.”

“I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens”