Mistress Pat Quotes

“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.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“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

“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.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“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.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“The old graveyard heard the most charming sound in the world…the low yielding laugh of a girl held prisoner by her lover.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“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.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“I've always thought nobody understood me quite as well as I understood myself.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“They can laugh when things go wrong. I like that. Anyone can laugh when it's all smooth sailing.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“Everybody is a little insane on some points”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“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.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“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.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“All the months are friends of mine but apple month is the dearest," chanted Pat.

It was October at Silver Bush. . .”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“God...must be liking a bit of fun, too, when he made us so fond of it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“Pat wondered how many people would think that Judy had had a happy life...a life spent in what they would think the monotonous drudgery of service on a little farm. Ah well, "the kingdom of heaven is within you," Pat knew Judy had been happy...that she asked for nothing but that people should turn to her for help...should "want" her. Nothing so dreadful could happen to Judy as not to be wanted.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“The more things and people you love the more happiness you get.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“She always wondered how anyone could live in a house where there were no trees. It seemed an indecency, like a too naked body. Trees...to veil and caress and beshadow...trees to warn you back and become you on.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“He always had a wild desire for notoriety... always had a craze to be mixed up with any scandal or catastrophe he heard of. Why, that man didn't like funerals because he couldn't pretend to be the corpse.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“And no tree was ever cut in the grove of white birches behind the house. THAT would have been sacrilege. Occasionally one blew down in an autumn storm and was mourned by Pat until time turned it into a beautiful mossy log with ferns growing thickly all along it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“How life grew around the changes until they became part of it and were changes no more.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“What was Latin and the chance of tattooing compared to this?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“She was an expert in dealing with situations without precedent.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat