Top 100 Louise Penny Quotes
#1. The Stalker by Gail Anderson-Dargatz In From the Cold by Deborah Ellis Shipwreck by Maureen Jennings The Picture of Nobody by Rabindranath Maharaj The Hangman by Louise Penny Easy Money by Gail Vaz-Oxlade 2011
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#2. Gamache wondered how low the bar was set when all a man had to do to attract a woman was not smell like decomposing bears.
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#3. He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dark, very cunning.
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#4. 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.
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#5. No, I don't. I find them very superficial. Calculated. He's a good artist, but I think he could be a great one, if he could use more instinct and less technique. He's a very good draftsman.
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#6. When does a bush that burns become a Burning Bush?
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#7. It's vital to hear your own language, to see it written, to see it valued.
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#8. Peter Morrow took no risks. He neither failed nor succeeded. There were no valleys, but neither were there mountains. Peter's landscape was flat. An endless, predictable desert.
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#9. But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.
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#10. Had CC de Poitiers known she was going to be murdered she might have bought her husband, Richard, a Christmas gift.
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#11. When you've seen the worst,
You appreciate the best.
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#12. His cell phone didn't work in Three Pines, and neither did email. He almost expected to see messages fluttering back and forth in the sky above the village, unable to descend.
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#13. Now she sat in front of him, nearly submerged under layers of thick sweaters and blankets. She looked like a laundry hamper without a head.
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#14. Gabri and Myrna were very rich indeed, rich in the things that matter. In friendships and laughter, in kindness and company. People rich in money might belong at the Inn and Spa, but those rich in other ways belonged in the tiny village of Three Pines. Here, kindness was the real currency.
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#15. ... in the library ... surrounded by things far more dangerous than what roamed the school corridors. For here thoughts were housed.
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#16. But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.
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#17. Peter's a lucky man except in one respect, he doesn't seem to know how lucky he is.
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#18. The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read.
They mothered each other.
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#19. in Beauvoir's experience losers were the most dangerous people. Because eventually they got to the stage where they had nothing more to lose.
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#20. It is sweet and right to die for your country ... . an old and dangerous lie. It might be necessary, but it is never sweet and rarely right. It's a tragedy.
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#21. Armand Gamache had seen the worst. But he'd also seen the best. Often in the same person.
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#22. Time, it covered over everything eventually. Events, people, memory. Chiniquy had disappeared beneath Time.
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#23. The Chief believed if you sift through evil, at the very bottom you'll find good. He believed that evil has its limits. Beauvoir didn't. He believed that if you sift through good, you'll find evil. Without borders, without brakes, without limit.
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#24. He had loads of colleagues, acquaintances, buddies. He was an emotional communist. Everyone counted equally, but none too much.
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#25. 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.
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#26. But if you were a nasty piece of work growing up, you'll be an asshole as an adult and you'll die pissed off.
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#27. Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile ... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.
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#28. No one could look at the beautiful young man now. They dropped their eyes from the scalding sight. From the eclipse. As all that love turned into hate.
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#29. This was the great benefit of seeing worse. Fewer things worried him now.
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#31. Now there will be no more loneliness," said the minister, as he gave his final blessing on the couple. Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the days of your togetherness. And may your days be good and long upon the earth.
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#32. He'd shoved his toque and mitts into the sleeve of his parka when he'd come in the night before, and now, thrusting his right arm into the armhole, he hit the blockage. At a practiced shove the pompom of the toque crowned the cuff followed by his mitts, like a tiny birth.
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#33. Young Langlois had sat down and gathered that power to him. The power that came from having information, knowledge, thoughts, and a calm place to collect them.
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#34. To live in chaos was to live in a prison. Order freed the mind for other things.
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#35. Everyone was getting married and it seemed like fun. I
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#36. FINE stood for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Egotistical.
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#37. They were home. He always felt a bit like a snail, but instead of carrying his home on his back, he carried it in his arms.
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#38. Irene Finney, like many very elderly people, knew that the world was indeed flat. It had a beginning and an end. And she had come to the edge.
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#39. I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.
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#41. All will be as it should, if we just do our best.
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#43. Most unhappiness comes from not being able to sit quietly in a room.
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#44. 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.
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#45. You can tell a lot about a man by his friends, or lack of them. Do they bring out the best in each other, or are they always gossiping, tearing others down? Keeping wounds alive?
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#46. His heart filled his chest and ran to the end of his tail and the very tips of his considerable ears. It filled his head, squeezing out his brain. But Henri, the foundling, was a humanist, and while not particularly clever was the smartest creature Gamache knew. Everything he knew he knew by heart.
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#47. Invite them back if you'd like," she called after him. "There's plenty." She was four courses upset and considering an amuse-bouche.
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#48. Had peace and quiet become so rare that when finally found they could be mistaken for something grotesque and unnatural? It would appear so.
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#49. 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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#50. Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.
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#51. You know Gabri, he wears his heart on his sleeve.' In fact, there were times Olivier wondered whether Gabri hadn't been born inside out.
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#52. Things were not as they seemed. The known world was shifting, reforming. Everything he'd taken as a given, a fact, as real and unquestioned, had fallen away. But
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#54. It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.
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#55. Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out.
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#56. How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.
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#57. ... believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn't.
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#58. She'd arrived a self-sufficient city woman, and now she was covered in snow, sitting on a bench beside a crazy person, and she had a duck on her lap. Who was nuts now?
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#59. Things are strongest where they're broken.
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#60. Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr?
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#61. All that had been trivial, that had been comforting and familiar and safe, now seemed to be strapped with explosives.
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#62. You are a man with a protective instinct. To care that deeply is a blessing. But like most blessings, it can also be a curse.
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#63. I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.
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#64. Chief Superintendent Arnot might hold power, but Armand Gamache was the more powerful man.
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#65. There's a huge fucking missile launcher in our backyard and apparently the only thing between us and Armageddon is some guy who's afraid of a duck.
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#66. Her voice changed slightly as she remembered, "But most he loved a happy human face.
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#67. Be careful. You're making hurting a habit. Spreading it around won't lessen your pain, you know. Just the opposite.
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#68. Corruption and brutality are modeled and expected and rewarded. It becomes normal. And anyone who stands up to it, who tells them it's wrong, is beaten down. Or worse.
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#69. ... the pain of neuralgia ... she knew what they thought. That she was cold. Couldn't feel. But in fact she felt too much. Too deeply.
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#70. She'd never actually smiled at a family reunion before. It felt odd.
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#71. When Peter walked into a room he always swept it until he found Clara. And then he relaxed.
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#72. But I understand your doubts. They're what make you a great man, not your certainties.
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#73. I know how precious life is. You had no right to take Renaud's and you have no right to take your own now. Not over this. Too much death. It needs to stop.
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#74. When put in a room with both parents, would almost always embrace the abuser.
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#75. 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.
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#76. Some other brown stuff that might not be mud into her tangled hair. All around, villagers wandered with their baskets of brightly colored eggs, looking for the perfect hiding places. Ruth Zardo sat on the bench in the middle of the green tossing
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#77. Haven't you ever heard of an artist's muse?" the barman asked. "They all seem to either have one or want one. Me, all I want is peace and quiet.
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#78. What killed people wasn't a bullet, a blade, a fist to the face. What killed people was a feeling. Left too long. Sometimes in the cold, frozen. Sometimes buried and fetid. And sometimes on the shores of a lake, isolated. Left to grow old, and odd.
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#79. She was scared to death. She was killed by her beliefs. By someone taking advantage of them.
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#80. and volunteering in the community. Mind, body, and spirit, the cadets were told. Over and
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#81. You weren't lost. You were exploring. There's a difference.
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#82. The reason "belonging" was so potent, so attractive, so much a part of the human yearning, was that it also meant safety, and loyalty. If you were "one of us" you were protected.
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#83. Relationship never starts with a fist to the face, or an insult. If it did there'd be no second date. It always starts gently. Kindly. The other person draws you in. To trust them. To need them. And then they slowly turn. Little by little, increasing the heat. Until you're trapped.
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#84. In a life filled with great good fortune of health, of creativity, of friends, living in safety and privilege with the loving partner. There was just one bit of misfortune in his life and that was that Peter Morrow seemed to have no idea how very fortunate he was.
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#85. The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.
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#86. Ruth believed in precycling. An evolution on recycling. She made use of things before people threw them out.
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#87. What could be worse? Dying, and not being missed.
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#88. Her tragedy was that she always found men to save her. She never had to save herself. She never knew she could.
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#89. Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner
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#90. Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived.
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#92. 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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#93. Armand Gamache found murderers by following the trail of rancid emotions. Beside
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#94. Gamache had asked not because he didn't know the answer, but because he wanted to see if Peter would lie to him. He had. And if he'd lie about that, what else had he lied about?
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#95. There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.
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#96. Olivier looked at him blankly. But the Chief Inspector had seen that look before. It was, in fact, almost impossible to look blank. Unless the person wanted to. A blank face to the Chief Inspector meant a frantic mind.
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#97. No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.
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#98. Do you know why we're all happy here, monsieur? Because it's the last house on the road.
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#99. Yeti. Big Foot. There was some old creature his grandmother had told him about. The Green Man. Half man, half tree. This was him. Beauvoir gripped his stick.
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#100. In trying to capture the beautiful mystery, this monk had invented written music. Not yet notes, what he'd written became known as neumes.
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