Mary

“– ‘I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

“She believed that books served as a mirror of the person who accumulated them.”
― Donna Leon, Through a Glass, Darkly

“The reason “belonging” was so potent, so attractive, so much a part of the human yearning, was that it also meant safety, and loyalty. If you were “one of us” you were protected.”
― Louise Penny, The Brutal Telling

“And will knowing what she reads make you know who she is?”
“Can you think of a better way to tell?”
― Donna Leon, Quietly in Their Sleep