I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott

I tell you I cannot bear it! I shall do something desperate if this life is not changed soon. It gets worse and worse, and I often feel as if I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom.

Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.

The girls gave their hearts into their mother’s keeping — their souls into their father’s; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.