But it seems that I was never intended to live very long. I never planned what I would do when I grew up like the rest of you did, because I could never bear the thought of leaving home.
— Beth March (Brien), (Margaret O’Brien)
13 seconds sound clip from the Little Women (1950) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:49:40 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- It's no use. I know what the doctor must have said. Please don't tell Marmee or Father, but I know.
- And Marmee said I was the cricket on the hearth, content to stay at home.
- I can't express it very well. I guess I shouldn't even try, except to my Jo.
- But, Jo, I think I will be homesick for you, even in Heaven.
- In April, when my baby was born, I named her Elizabeth in memory of my sister.
- After we had lost Beth, no one saw very much of Jo.
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