Katarzyna

“Trying is always more important than succeeding. It’s the effort you put into it that counts. That’s what true character is… Doing your best, even if you know you might not get rewarded for it.”
― Meg Muldoon, Menace in Christmas River

“It was so easy to get caught up in the day to day grind. In the little dramas of work, in the trips to the grocery store, in the hours of mindless vegging in front of the television. You could live your life that way, always caught up in the next thing. Always thinking of tomorrow, of your future, of the next paycheck. Never stopping to appreciate the moment you had now. Never stopping to appreciate the friends and family and love and laughter that existed in every single day of your life. Life could just pass you by like that, without you really noticing the good. And it was a shame if it did. It was a sin, if you let it go like that.”
― Meg Muldoon, Malice in Christmas River

“Then we left it behind and entered another world. Steep, densely forested slopes closed in around us, plunging us into shadow as the road wound through them. Part of the huge Appalachian Mountains chain, the Smokies covered eight hundred square miles and spanned the border between Tennessee and North Carolina. They'd been declared a National Park, although looking out of the car window I thought that nature was blithely unaware of such distinctions. This was a wilderness that man had even now barely scratched. Coming from a crowded island like the UK, it was impossible not to be humbled by their sheer scale. There”
― Simon Beckett, Whispers of the Dead

“You could’ve broken both your legs,” I said. “Sure. I could have,” he said. “But I didn’t. And even if I had, better be hurt than go through life knowing you didn’t do it because it got the better of you.” “Did”
― Meg Muldoon, Mayhem in Christmas River