131 Quotes by Pam Brown

Music speaks of Platonic truth – the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.

It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all – we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us – to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.

Thank you for being interested. Doesn’t sound much but it meant just about everything.

A cat likes to hear you calling him. He sits in a bush a yard from your shoes – and listens.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.

A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pigin trying sledges and experimental go-carts.Someone to send on messages to Mum.But someone who needs you-who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution.Someone who trusts you to defend her.Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often--just to save it from drying out completely.

Sisters are different. They heard the sobbing in the darkness.They lived through all your triumphs, all your favorites,all your loves and losses. They have no delusions.They lived with you too long.And so, when you achieve some victory, friends are delighted -but sisters hold your hands in silence and shine with happiness.For they know the cost.

If your sister is in a hurry to go out and won't catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.