Quotes from Pam Brown

The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

"If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them."

The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counselor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

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.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

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.

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

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

Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks — expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs — that can undermine any tale you're telling.

An older sister is a friend and defender — a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

Sisters share the scent and smells — the feel of a common childhood.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.