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Louise Penny

"After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her."

Source : Louise Penny (2014). “The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.22, Macmillan

Louise Penny

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“I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad; I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.”

Source : "Celebrity endorsements that are science fiction trashed in annual list" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2010.
“I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.”
“The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory.”
“There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?”
“The Ramones were a great bunch of guys. They were very quiet, very shy. They were a little in awe of the filmmaking process, probably because we started at 7 a.m. I do remember the very first day of shooting, I met them and did the scene in the bedroom where Joey sings to me, and they were all scattered around my bedroom in my little fantasy scene. That was the first scene we shot of the movie. That scene is kind of a strange way to start a movie. "Okay, get undressed, and these weird guys in leather jackets and ripped jeans are going to sing to you."”
“If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.”
“I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.”

Source : Quoted in Basil Davidson, Africa in Modern History: The Search for a New Society (1978)
“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”

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