One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. – Pam Brown
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
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away – and leaves behind only silence. – 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
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by “living”? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. – e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954