Цитаты из книги «Маленькие женщины / Little women»

Meg was Amy’s confidant and monitor, and by some strange attraction of opposites Jo was gentle Beth’s.

Amy was in a fair way to be spoiled

her long words were considered ‘perfectly elegant’

read French without mispronouncing more than two-thirds of the words.

“Little Raphael,” as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art.

Margaret found a place as nursery governess and felt rich with her small salary.

We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one way or another. Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City

They adopted Jo’s plan of dividing