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Louise Penny
“His theory is that life is loss,’ said Myrna after a moment. ‘Loss of parents, loss of loves, loss of jobs. So we have to find a higher meaning in our lives than these things and people. Otherwise we’ll lose ourselves.”
Louise Penny, Still Life

Spencer Quinn
“And just like that, one last taste of the local grub was all alone in my mind, whatever had been there before completely gone. I couldn't have been happier, which is how I like to operate.”
Spencer Quinn, Paw and Order

Anthony Trollope
“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
Anthony Trollope

J.R.R. Tolkien
“Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.”
J.R.R. Tolkien

Louise Penny
“Life is loss. But out of that, as the book stresses, comes freedom. If we can accept that nothing is permanent, and change is inevitable, if we can adapt, then we’re going to be happier people.”
Louise Penny, Still Life

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