All of these quotes are by L. M. Montgomery.
“’She loves folks…and things…better than most…and
that’ll give her the great delight. But they’ll hurt her more too. ‘Tis
the way of the fairy gift and ye have to take the bad wid the good.’”
–Judy on Pat, Pat of Silver Bush I,1
"It was all so lovely that it hurt. Why,
Pat wondered, did lovely things so often hurt?"
- Pat of Silver Bush XI,2
"I've talked to ye as wise as inny av thim, Patsy, about choosing frinds
but ye don't be choosing frinds after all. They come to ye…or they don't. Just
that. Ye get the ones meant for you, be they minny or few, in the time app'inted
for their coming."
- Judy to Pat, Pat of Silver Bush
"'I'm always building houses,' said Jingle
dreamily, rolling McGinty over and clasping his hands around his sunburned
knees.
'In my head, I mean. I call them my dreamhouses. Some day when
I'm grown up I'm going to build them really. I'll build one for you Pat.'"
- Pat of Silver Bush XI,2
"I shall be dust when my heart forgets"
- Pat of Silver Bush
"Don't feel badly...because I love you
and you can't love me. I've always loved you. I can't help it and I wouldn't
if I could. If the choice had been mine I would still have chosen to love
you. There are people who try to forget a hopeless love. I'm not one of
them...To me the greatest misfortune life could bring would be that I should
forget you. I want to remember and love you always. That will be unspeakably
better than any happiness that could come through forgetting. My love for
you is the best thing...always has been the best thing…in my life. It hasn't
made me poorer. On the contrary it has enriched my whole existence and
given me the gift of clear vision for the things that matter; it has been
a lamp held before my feet whereby I have avoided many pitfalls of baser
passions and unworthy dreams. It will always be so. Therefore don't pity
me and don't feel unhappy about me."
- Mistress Pat
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.
- Mistress Pat
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