Pat of Silver Bush Quotes

“Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush

“No matter what dreadful things happened at least there were still cats in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush

“One forgets all through the year how lovely spring really is and so it comes as a surprise every time.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush

“If you believe in a thing it doesn’t matter whether it exists or not”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush

“You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush

“Ye’ve only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush

“Pat sat on the garden bench until dawn came over the Hill of the Mist. The day had begun in a pale windless morning . . . the day on which mother was to go. Would she ever return?

That old hymn she had hated . . . "change and decay in all around I see."

Change was what she had always dreaded.

"Oh, Thou who changest not abide with me."

It was not a hateful hymn after all . . . it was a hymn to be loved. How wonderful to feel that there was something that never changed . . . a Power under and above and around on which you could depend. Peace seemed to flow into her.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush

“Pat wanted to comfort him for something she did not understand. She slipped her little hand into his...he had a warm pleasant hand. They walked home together so.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush

“There was a blue, waiting sea at the end and an old grey house fronting the sunset, so close to the purring waves that in storms their spray dashed over its very doorstep...a wise old house that knew many things, as Pat always felt. Mother's old home and therefore to be loved, whether one could love the people in it or not.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush

“If we never have any adventures we’ll have nothing to remember when we get old.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush

“They weren't his trees half as much as they were mine. He didn't love them and I did.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush

“I like to live with good people better than bad, but I like hearing about bad people better than good.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush

“This was home.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush

“Pat turned away with a shiver. The peace of the old kitchen was in delightful contrast to the storm outside. The stove was glowing clear red in the dusk. Thursday was coiled up under it, thinking this was how things should be. It was so nice to be in this bright, warm room, supping Judy’s hot pea soup and watching the reflection of the kitchen outside through the window. Pat loved to do that. It looked so uncanny and witchlike…so real yet so unreal…with Judy apparently calmly setting bread under the thrashing maple by the well.”
― L.M. Montgomery , Pat of Silver Bush

“Oh, oh, it's not meself that do be knowing what the girls of today are coming to. Trying to make thimselves into min and not succading very well at that.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush