"The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first time, at the perfection of nature where leaves were most beautiful at the very end of their lives."

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Source : Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.525, Macmillan

Louise Penny

#Beautiful Quotes #Feet Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.”
“When the camera comes on, I am not Hayden any more, I am Lizzie!”
“The speed of light sucks.”

Source : "The Egos At Id". Interview with Marc Laidlaw, www.wired.com. August 1, 1996.
“I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.”
“One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and selling at even higher prices.”
“Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.”
“Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.”
“Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.”

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