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“The four sayings that lead to wisdom:
I was wrong
I'm sorry
I don't know
I need help”
― Louise Penny

“It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
― Mary Higgins Clark

“Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help?”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Bulls Island

“As we did every New Year's Eve we made ridiculous resolutions that no one would keep, and quietly we all wondered what the coming year would hold, each of us praying for our own private miracles. Good health. Better health. A marriage for this child, a good job for another. This hopefulness was something hardwired into our psyches, that a new year might mean some monumental something wonderful could happen to bring us happiness at a level we had never known. A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be peace on earth for one entire day.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“Makes you grow up quick. Hard work makes you strong. I work hard every day; that's where I get my strength. That and knowing who I am.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Sullivan's Island

“Another maternal insight --- you always dislike about your children that which you dislike about yourself because you understand the danger about that trait. ~ Dorothea Benton Frank, The Hurricane Sisters, p. 115.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Hurricane Sisters

“There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me

“They don't realize evil lives on their streets”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.”
― Harlan Coben

“I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are
still together.”
― Warsan Shire

“Forgiveness is a powerful thing.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”
― Jenny Colgan, Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“I'm a woman; in so many ways I've been programmed to please. I took the job and spent time hunkered over figures, budgets, charts, and fiscal-year projections. I tried, but I hated it.

"Working at a job you don't like is the same as going to prison every day," my father used to say. He was right. I felt imprisoned by an impressive title, travel, perks, and a good salary. On the inside, I was miserable and lonely, and I felt as if I was losing myself. I spent weekends working on reports no one read, and I gave presentations that I didn't care about. It made me feel like a sellout and, worse, a fraud.

Now set free, like any inmate I had to figure out what to do with the rest of my life.”
― Kathleen Flinn, The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

“But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.”
― Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder

“Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your actions
Your actions become your destiny.

Mahatma Ghandi,” he said. “There’s more, but I can’t remember it all.”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

“Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

“I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

“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