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I need to pull away from this - She gestured between them languidly - "because When I'm with you, I lose my balance. I don't feel calm and happy.
She leaned forward, and Kane swallowed down his immediate urge to leap across the table and crush her thin lips under his.
"When I am with you," Claire said, her accent rolling through the words like thunder, "I am a starving lion, raging at my captivity.


Louisa Edwards

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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whol...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …the violin — that most human of all instruments…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...str...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it fo...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT But, like all happiness, it did not last long…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any wa...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes t...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Love covers a multitude of sins…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I hate ordinary people!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getti...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."

"They're not empty no...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I wish I had no heart, it aches so…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, with...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man ou...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never t...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a v...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Conceit spoils the finest genius.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my e...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Be worthy love, and love will come.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm de...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a ri...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fa...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning, and may be many; but you can over...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delig...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go d...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never thi...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had bett...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT