– ‘I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life. - Louise Penny

In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.

The only thing money really buys?...Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money.