9 Quotes by Miss Read

How many people had stood here, as she did now, puzzled, unhappy, numb with pain and perplexity? And how many had found comfort in the knowledge of the continuity of life, of being but one link in a long chain of human experience, in this old, old setting?

In any case, I see no reason why a good-tempered, steady-going cat should not be included in a country classroom. It adds a pleasantly domestic touch to our working conditions.

Thoughts by a graveside are too dark and deep to be sustained for any length of time. Sooner or later the hurt mind turns to the sun for healing, and this is as it should be, for otherwise, what future could any of us hope for, but madness?

The thing to do,' I said as we gained the lane that leads to Beech Green and Fairacre, 'is to get absolutely everything in the summer and lock it in a cupboard. Then order every scrap of food from a shop the week before Christmas and sit back and enjoy watching everyone else go mad. I've been meaning to do it for years.

My parents were great readers of poetry and had a weakness for the light fantastic.''A pleasant change from the heavy dismal we suffer from everywhere today,' commented Winnie.

Not to be alone – ever – is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no solitude at all in which ‘to catch up with myself’ I find mentally, physically and spiritually exhausting.

I soon realized that what I really wanted was time to ruminate, time to observe, and often time to be alone.

Miss Clare had already arrived when I walked over at a quarter to nine. Her bicycle, as upright and as ancient as its owner, was propped just inside the lobby door.

For Amy is the victim of today’s common malaise – too much self analysis; while I, finding myself remarkably uninteresting, am only too pleased to observe others and the natural objects around me. Thus I am.