Julie

“unnecessary discomfort is a form of martyrdom with which I have no sympathy.”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Hippopotamus Pool

“I step across any reflections that are too dark with great strides, and when I am in my right mind, I find life acceptable because it is eternal. You call that my dreaming. I call it my faith and my strength. No, nothing dies, nothing is lost, nothing ends, whatever you may say. —George Sand, in a letter to Delacroix”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand

“Entitlement was, she knew, a terrible thing. It chained the person to their victimhood. It gobbled up all the air around it. Until the person lived in a vacuum, where nothing good could flourish.”
― Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind

“Hindsight, I thought, was like a punishment, remorseless in its clarity and painfully unable to change what had gone before. Turning”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Splendour Falls