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want to crawl inside his skin and wrap herself around his

Anyone so damaged as to cause this much harm led a life full of secrets and full of enemies.

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.

Just because it's the truth doesn't make it less insulting.

He felt like a mobile library. Where other investigators gathered fingerprints and evidence, he gathered books.

... while men and women perished, and cities fell, symbols endured, grew. Symbols were immortal.

Gamache enjoyed going to churches for their music and the beauty of the language and the stillness. But he felt closer to God in his Volvo.

Had CC de Poitiers known she was going to be murdered she might have bought her husband, Richard, a Christmas gift.

Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction.

What could be worse? Dying, and not being missed.

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.

Funny how imperfections on the outside mean something splendid beneath.

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

All that had been trivial, that had been comforting and familiar and safe, now seemed to be strapped with explosives.

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

Paul Hiebert's Sarah Binks, the cover said.

It's vital to hear your own language, to see it written, to see it valued.

Old sins have long shadows," said Gamache. "And this is an old sin.

She was stuffing her innards back. Sewing herself up, putting her skin, her make-up, her party frock back on.

It's so easy to get mired in the all too obvious cruelty of the world. It's natural. But to really heal, we need to recognize the goodness too.

Conscience. Imagine being pursued by your own conscience ... .A mountain of conscience. Throwing a lengthening shadow. Growing. Darkening.

There is a balm in Gilead
to make the wounded whole.

Champlain missing was so much more potent than Champlain found.

Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.

circling the green. She

Most people want to be led. But suppose they choose the wrong leader? They end up with the Donner party.

But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.

Love wants the best for others. Attachment takes hostages.

I asked him to leave because he stopped caring for me, stopped supporting me. Not because I'd stopped caring for him.

They'd reached St Thomas's and climbed the half-dozen wooden steps to the small veranda. Gamache

Sometimes the only way up is down. Sometimes the only way forward is to back up.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom:
I was wrong
I'm sorry
I don't know
I need help

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table,

Had peace and quiet become so rare that when finally found they could be mistaken for something grotesque and unnatural? It would appear so.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

All children are sad,
but some get over it.

While forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.

A Brave Man in a Brave Country Surprised

Not everyone makes the boat, she thought.

In trying to capture the beautiful mystery, this monk had invented written music. Not yet notes, what he'd written became known as neumes.

Everything he let go of had claw marks on it.

If less was more, she had a great deal.

Saw Gamache shaking his head he reconsidered. Not the maps?

Precision and clarity where the police

A bare bulb swished from side to side. Dust floated in what little light it threw and cobwebs hung from the rafters. It smelled of spiders.

New Brunswick. Shediac. Lobster Capital of the World.

Getting in his car he let it warm up, feeling the heated seats grow warm under him. On a bitterly cold winter day it was almost as good as sex. Then

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.

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.

When I miss things or let them pass they gather in a heap then rise up and take a life. So, I try not to.

But I understand your doubts. They're what make you a great man, not your certainties.

Myrna...prayed God wasn't one of of the men or women she'd betrayed by signing their release. Myrna's weight wasn't all carried around her middle.

We choose our thoughts. We choose our perceptions. We choose our attitudes

You weren't lost. You were exploring. There's a difference.

She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had a powerful need to nurture.

When put in a room with both parents, would almost always embrace the abuser.

Peter's a lucky man except in one respect, he doesn't seem to know how lucky he is.

waited on my call, nor does any

was that he hadn't yet figured out

You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?" Myrna

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

... in the library ... surrounded by things far more dangerous than what roamed the school corridors. For here thoughts were housed.

Not everything buried is actually dead. For many, the past is alive.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other." "And between the two is the lump in the throat,

Abby Hoffman said we should all eat what we kill. That would put an end to war.

And this was what a couple of that age looked like. If they were lucky.

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.

When Peter walked into a room he always swept it until he found Clara. And then he relaxed.

This was the great benefit of seeing worse. Fewer things worried him now.

Believe the copy of this e-book you are reading

I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.

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

The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.

I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.

First two were obvious.

Happy people didn't drink themselves to sleep every night.

There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.

A coy smile could capture him, but it was finally a hearty laugh that had freed him.

She suspected if they looked in Gamache's bedside table, they'd find all sorts of lost souls he put there for safekeeping. And maybe a baguette.

... walked deep into the shadow, deep into the longhouse where all his experiences and memories lived ...

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.

All will be as it should, if we just do our best.

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.

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.

When my death us do part
Then shall forgiven and forgiving meet again,
Or will it be, as always was, too late?

To live in chaos was to live in a prison. Order freed the mind for other things.

Do you know the sums that I do?" "I count my blessings.

And fear. High school smelled of that more than anything else, even more than sweaty feet, cheap perfume and rotten bananas.

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

Be careful. You're making hurting a habit. Spreading it around won't lessen your pain, you know. Just the opposite.

Maybe that's what old men are for. To make decisions that no young man can." He was watching Gamache closely. "Or should have to.

Violent death demanded Earl Grey.

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

A poem begins as a lump in the throat? Gamache asked Ruth. The elderly woman held his eyes

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.

Control your thoughts and you can control your emotions. Do you trust me?

The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'.

Light is every bit as challenging as dark. We can discover a great deal about ourselves by looking at beauty.

from a distance you might see the big picture, but not the whole picture, you missed the details. Not everything was seen, from a distance.

and volunteering in the community. Mind, body, and spirit, the cadets were told. Over and