…men never forgive like women. - Louisa May Alcott

If she really had any doubt, the look in Dr. Alec's face banished it without a word, as he opened wide his arms and she ran into them, feeling that home was here.

I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.

Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward; men seldom do, — for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.