…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart. - Louisa May Alcott

My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.

...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.