Margie

“But, like peace, comfort didn’t come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.”
― Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In

“What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.”
― Louise Penny, A Trick of the Light

“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”
― George S. Patton

“After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she’d looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn’t joking. He was warning her.”
― Louise Penny, The Long Way Home