Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to "eight Cousins

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.””

— Louisa May Alcott

“To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on””

— Louisa May Alcott

“A very precious and lovely part, but not all,” continued Rose. “Neither should it be for a woman: for we’ve got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I’m sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won’t have anything to do with love till I prove that I am something besides a housekeeper and baby-tender!””

— Louisa May Alcott

“No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles...””

— Louisa May Alcott

“Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions””

— Louisa May Alcott

“What right have I to more gay gowns, when some poor babies have none; or to spend time making myself fine, while there is so much bitter want in the world?””

— Louisa May Alcott

“The fun and fame do not last, while the memory of a real helper is kept green long after poetry is forgotten and music silent.””

— Louisa May Alcott

“for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.””

— Louisa May Alcott

“Do you consider shoes unhealthy?" he asked, surveying the socks with respectful interest””

— Louisa May Alcott