Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.

“she found herself looking down on the top of Teenie's head; at a small woollen bobble, in fact, which topped a curious tea-cosy style…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“In winter this town is freezing. You step out your door in the morning and the whole place looks like one of those nature…

— Flynn Meaney

Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.

— Bill Watterson

Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter…

— Zadie Smith

“That light is bright enough to light up a little speck of the night sky so a man can see it a ways away.…

— Jennifer Erin Valent

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

— Jim Butcher

“It’s like a broken bone that never healed quite right. An ache that I feel on cold days when the chill of your memory…

— Liz Newman

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“All farms require a resident dreamer, someone to thumb through seed catalogs in the cold days of late January, imagining summer fields of squash…

— Forrest Pritchard

“I’d had a key to the marina’s locks at one time, but I’d lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got…

— Jim Butcher

Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked. I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she can understand. A man coming back. That's different." "Isn't…

— Jim Butcher

“Daddy didn’t say anything for a minute or so, and then he reached up and caught a firefly as it glowed beside him. “See…

— Jennifer Erin Valent

“This thing was power from the Outside, and I was a grain of sand to its oncoming tide. But you know what? That grain…

— Jim Butcher

I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and…

— Jim Butcher

“It's damp outside, and I'm always cold. Most days I wear a cap and shawl indoors." "I could suggest other methods to keep yourself…

— Lisa Kleypas