Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.
—Pam Brown
Topics: Cats
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.
—Pam Brown
Topics: Horses
A friendship can weather most silly 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.
—Pam Brown
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.
—Pam Brown
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.
—Pam Brown
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
—Pam Brown
Topics: Cats
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.
—Pam Brown
The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy—and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You’ll make the sofa in the end.
—Pam Brown
Topics: Success, Failure
Loss leaves us empty – but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible – but new joys wait to fill the void.
—Pam Brown
Topics: Loss
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.
—Pam Brown
An older sister is a friend and defender – a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
—Pam Brown
Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.
—Pam Brown
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.
—Pam Brown
Topics: Horses
When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?
—Pam Brown
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away – and leaves behind only silence.
—Pam Brown
Topics: Silence
A cat is a regency gentleman—elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch.
—Pam Brown
Topics: Men
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