“If in my present
life I love one person truly,
no matter who it is,
I believe that we meet somewhere again,
though
where or how I don’t know or care,
for genuine love is immortal.”
~Louisa May Alcott to Maggie Lukens,
February 14, 1884
"I’ve felt
for the first time in my life the joyful consciousness
that I am truly
loved by a truly good man…
A man in whom I can trust without fear,
in whose principles I have
perfect faith,
in whose
large, warm, loving heart
my own restless soul can find repose."
~ Anna’s
Journal
March 16, 1859
“To be a happy wife with a
good husband to love and care for me, and then go on with my art. This
blessed lot is mine, and from my purpose I never intend to be diverted ….
I am free to follow my profession, I have a strong arm to protect, a
tender love to cherish me, and I have no fears for the future.”
~ Letter from May
to her family, 1878
“After some thought, I handed
my friend my Journal, in which from time to time I had written my
opinions and feelings regarding her….It had the very effect which I
hoped. It led to the connection in which I now so much rejoice, and from
which I have already enjoyed much, and anticipate the fullest felicities
of this existence.”
~ Bronson Alcott’s
journal,
Nov. 29, 1828
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