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1 " How terrible it must be not to see and feel beauty.... I'm so glad I can find happiness in all lovely little things... It seems to me that every time I look out of a window the world gives me a gift. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Mistress Pat (Pat, #2)
2 " No, I've neither wife nor progeny, Miss Plum. I've often tried to get married, but something always prevented. Sometimes everyone was willing but the girl herself. Sometimes nobody was willing. "
3 " I don't seem to be like other girls, Judy. They all want to go to college and have a career. I don't...I just want to stay at Silver Bush and help you and mother. There's work for me here, Judy...you know there is. Mother isn't strong. As for being educated...I shall be well educated...love educates, Judy. "
4 " I've always thought nobody understood me quite as well as I understood myself. "
5 " I love keeping house...it's really a lovely phrase isn't it? Keeping it...holding it fast against the world...against all the forces trying to tear it open. "
6 " Everybody is a little insane on some points "
7 " They can laugh when things go wrong. I like that. Anyone can laugh when it's all smooth sailing. "
8 " How life grew around the changes until they became part of it and were changes no more. "
9 " She was an expert in dealing with situations without precedent. "
10 " What was Latin and the chance of tattooing compared to this? "
11 " All the months are friends of mine but apple month is the dearest," chanted Pat.It was October at Silver Bush. . . "
12 " There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely. "
13 " If one could only feel always like this," Pat had said once to Judy. "All the little worries swallowed up...all the petty spites and fears and disappointments forgotten...just love and peace and beauty.""Oh, oh, but what wud there be lift for heaven, girl dear?" asked Judy. "
14 " These modern novels that leave everything unfinished annoy me...""But things are often unfinished in real life," said Pat..."All the more reason why they should come right in books," said Uncle Horace testily. "Real life! We get enough real life living. I like fairy tales. I like a nice snug tidy ending in a book with all the loose ends tucked in. "
15 " The old graveyard heard the most charming sound in the world…the low yielding laugh of a girl held prisoner by her lover. "