Miss Read Quotes

• Not to be alone - ever - is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no solitude at all in which 'to catch up with myself' I find mentally, physically and spiritually exhausting.

  Señorita Read

  Ideas, Solitude, Hell

  Miss Read (2007). “Village Diary”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happiness is the result of an attitude of mind. I believe you can build it out of small things.

  Señorita Read

  Happiness, Attitude, Believe

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• me parece que las abuelas ocupan un lugar muy especial en el afecto de los niños pequeños. Al no estar obligadas, como los padres, a proporcionar alimento, cobijo, protección, consejo y disciplina, día tras día, pueden permitirse ser mucho más indulgentes. El regalo inesperado, la salida extra, el pequeño capricho de una comida favorita preparada especialmente para deleitar al niño y, sobre todo, el tiempo para escuchar los desahogos juveniles, todo ello convierte a la abuela en una aliada querida. No es de extrañar que el vínculo entre abuela y nieto sea a menudo más fuerte que entre padre e hijo.

  Señorita Read

  Children, Grandmother, Discipline

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• Thoughts by a graveside are too dark and deep to be sustained for any length of time. Sooner or later the hurt mind turns to the sun for healing, and this is as it should be, for otherwise, what future could any of us hope for, but madness?

  Señorita Read

  Hurt, Healing, Dark

  Miss Read (2001). “Village School”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools.

  Señorita Read

  Education, Teacher, Jobs

  Miss Read (1977). “Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village”

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• The thing to do,' I said as we gained the lane that leads to Beech Green and Fairacre, 'is to get absolutely everything in the summer and lock it in a cupboard. Then order every scrap of food from a shop the week before Christmas and sit back and enjoy watching everyone else go mad. I've been meaning to do it for years.

  Señorita Read

  Summer, Order, Years

  Miss Read (2001). “Village School”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.

  Señorita Read

  Drinking, Past, Sight

  Miss Read (2002). “Gossip from Thrush Green”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who grow them in Fairacre say, as they hand them over: 'Funny thing! I don't care for them myself. In fact, none of the family likes them!' But still they plant them. It must be the fascination of seeing such a wonderful return for one small seed, that keeps marrow-growers at their dubious task.

  Señorita Read

  Doors, Hands, Funny Things

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