Armand Gamache Quotes

#1. Chief Superintendent Arnot might hold power, but Armand Gamache was the more powerful man.

Louise Penny

#2. Armand Gamache found murderers by following the trail of rancid emotions. Beside

Louise Penny

#3. Armand Gamache wondered whether CC de Poitiers was at that very moment trying to explain herself to a perplexed God and two very angry seals.

Louise Penny

#4. Armand Gamache had seen the worst. But he'd also seen the best. Often in the same person.

Louise Penny

#5. For Armand Gamache knew what not-nice was. He knew what cruelty, despair, horror were. And he knew what a forgotten, and precious quality 'nice'was.

Louise Penny

#6. Armand Gamache had always held unfashionable beliefs. He believed the light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits.

Louise Penny

#7. One day that ego of yours'll kill you. That's all it is, you know. You pretend it's selfless, you pretend to be the great teacher, the wise and patient Armand Gamache, but you and I both know it's ego. Pride. Be careful, my friend. She's dangerous. You've said so yourself.

Louise Penny

#8. I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

Rick Mercer

#9. Do you know, Armand, I can't remember the last time I felt safe." "I know what you mean," said Gamache. "It feels as though this has been going on forever." "No, I don't mean just this mess. I mean all my life.

Louise Penny

#10. It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.

Kellie Martin

#11. The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar.

Martin Feldstein

#12. ... it's not the truth about others that will set you free, but the truth about yourself.

Louise Penny

#13. I'd rather be eaten by a dragon.

Patricia C. Wrede

#14. Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

Zygmunt Bauman

#15. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: "Ye were bought at a price," and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us.

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