Mallory Trell

“You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise.”
[Anna] aimed her defiance at Mary.
“And you? What’s your reason to hate me?”
Caroline spoke quietly. “We nearly died — in the fire in those mountains and at the house when Ravi had a gun pointed at us.” Her eyes were full of tears. “The fire you set at The Old Hospital could have killed me as well as Janet and Agnes.”
Anna muttered into the syrupy dregs of her tea. “Fire, you’re firing me?”
Mary grimaced. There had been too much fire.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Acceptance, it must be pointed out, is the opposite of resignation and defeat.”
― Dalai Lama, The Book of Joy

“We travelled from Oberau with a tourist agent, and he told us all his troubles.  It seems that a tourist agent is an ordinary human man, and has feelings just like we have.  This had never occurred to me before.  I told him so.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Diary of a Pilgrimage

“The earth opens
and down I tumble,
into a vault of seeds,
perfect and unbroken.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation