Melet

“Attachment masquerades as Love, Pity as Compassion and Indifference as Equanimity.”
― Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month

“Life can be cruel, as you know. But it can also be kind. Filled with wonders. You need to remember that. You have your own choice to make, Armand. What’re you going to focus on? What’s unfair, or all the wonderful things that happen? Both are true, both are real. Both need to be accepted. But which carries more weight with you?” Stephen tapped the boy’s chest. “The terrible or the wonderful? The goodness or the cruelty? Your life will be decided by that choice.”
― Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here

“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

“Is it true? Is it kind? Does it need to be said?”
― Louise Penny, A Better Man