“You will find some lovely accomplished girl who will love you and adore you, and she’s gonna make a fine mistress for your fine house. But I wouldn’t all right? Look at me, I’m homely and I’m awkward…”
“But I love you Jo”
“ And you’d be ashamed of me.”
‘I love you Jo.”
“And we would quarrel because we can’t help it, even now. I’d hate elegant society, you’d hate my scribbling, and we would be unhappy and we’d wish we hadn’t done it, and everything would be horrid.”
“Is there anything more?”
“No, nothing more.”
“All right.”
“Except that… Teddy, I don’t believe I will ever marry. I’m happy as I am. And I love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up.|
“I think you’re wrong about that Jo. I think you will marry Jo. I think you will find someone, and love them, and you will live and die for them, because that’s your way, and you will. And I’ll watch.”
Little Women, 2019.
