“Love was madness, was foolish, was senseless. Love was a problem, and yet somehow the loss of it was a worse one. Love made normal things, sensible things, make no sense at all. It made Meg almost refuse a good man who loved her. It made their mama give all their bread to the Hummels and wait forever for a chaplain husband who was practically a ghost. It made Amy and Poppet speak in their own private language, the language of long-lost and now-reunited twins, shipwrecked together in the seas of some faraway world. It made familiar things terrifying, and terrifying things familiar. It burned the wings off moths, sending them headlong into the flame. There was no escape, no recovery, no happy ending. You loved and you lost. Your heart beat and the beating left it bruised beyond recognition. You could feel it, or try not to feel it, or long for it, but you didn't get to keep it. It didn't matter how, or even why. He loved you or he didn't. She died or she didn't. He left or he didn't. In the end, you were always the loneliest person in the world, no matter who you were. Because that was what love was, the very raggedy edge of that feeling, the coming or the going of it. There was nothing else. Only shadows.” LoveLifeDeathLossSistersRetellingLittle WomenJo March Book:Jo & Laurie Source: Jo & Laurie
“I only write the characters for what feels like a moment, until the characters sort of...take up the quill on their own...and begin to write each other. Tell each other their stories. They breathe on each other, and make each other live. And from then on, I'm just an eavesdropper, Amy.” WritingFunnySistersRetellingLittle WomenJoLaurie Book:Jo & Laurie Source: Jo & Laurie
“Amy stuck out her chin. 'I want Laurie.' 'You can't have Laurie,' Meg said. 'It doesn't work in the narrative. You and Laurie don't even like each other all that much.” LoveWritingFunnyImaginationSistersLittle WomenJoLaurie Book:Jo & Laurie Source: Jo & Laurie
“What a bunch of rot,' Jo exclaimed, snatching the letter out of Meg's hand. 'I won't marry Jo to Laurie for anything! Especially not to please anyone!' 'Certainly not yourself,' Meg muttered. 'What?' 'Nothing, dear.” LoveFriendshipSistersRetellingLittle WomenMegJoLaurie Book:Jo & Laurie Source: Jo & Laurie
