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In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.
Louise Penny
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Louise Penny
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 1
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Journalist
Novelist
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City of Toronto
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I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.
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Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.
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I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.
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Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.
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I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.
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Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.
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