Vicki

“had known that when her time came God wouldn’t ask how many committees she’d sat on, or how much money she’d made, or what prizes she’d won. No. He’d ask how many fellow creatures she’d helped.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

“Most of us are brought down by a bunch of tiny transgressions. Little things that add up until we collapse under them. It’s fairly easy to avoid doing the big bad things, but it’s the hundred mean little things that’ll get you eventually. If you listen to people long enough you realize it’s not the slap or the punch, but the whispered gossip, the dismissive look. The turned back. That’s what people with any conscience are ashamed of.”
― Louise Penny, A Trick of the Light

“but how much better would he be if he stopped thinking and started just being? Started listening, smelling, feeling?”
― Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder

“Corruption and brutality are modeled and expected and rewarded. It becomes normal. And anyone who stands up to it, who tells them it’s wrong, is beaten down.”
― Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In