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Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience. — Louise Penny

want to crawl inside his skin and wrap herself around his — Louise Penny

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

There is a balm in Gilead," she read from the back, "to make the wounded whole - " "There's power enough in Heaven / To cure a sin-sick soul. — Louise Penny

Clara didn't carry a grudge. They were too heavy and she had too far to go. — Louise Penny

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

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

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

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

You mean if a good hunter did this it was on purpose? — Louise Penny

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

Their creations eventually die of neglect, of malnourishment. And sometimes, when that happens the artist also dies. — Louise Penny

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

She'd forgotten to love, but she also forgot to hate. (about Clara's mother, who had dementia) — Louise Penny

Paul Hiebert's Sarah Binks, the cover said. — Louise Penny

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

Gamache in anger. "He knew that's — Louise Penny

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

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. — Louise Penny

Invite them back if you'd like," she called after him. "There's plenty." She was four courses upset and considering an amuse-bouche. — Louise Penny

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. — Louise Penny

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity. — Louise Penny

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. — Louise Penny

Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile ... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey. — Louise Penny

He had loads of colleagues, acquaintances, buddies. He was an emotional communist. Everyone counted equally, but none too much. — Louise Penny

It was one thing to forgive, it was another to climb back into the cage with that bear, even if it was wearing a tutu and smiling. — Louise Penny

He stared for ten seconds or more, which, when eating a chocolate cake isn't much, but when staring, is. — Louise Penny

Violent death demanded Earl Grey. — Louise Penny

Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived. — Louise Penny

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

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity. — Louise Penny

Her tragedy was that she always found men to save her. She never had to save herself. She never knew she could. — Louise Penny

What are you afraid of?
I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise. — Louise Penny

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

She taught me that life goes on, and that I had a choice. To lament what I no longer had or be grateful for what remained. — Louise Penny

my beliefs comfort, they don't kill. — Louise Penny

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. — Louise Penny

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

And I would never, ever mock the power of love. But it can also distort. Slip over into desperation and delusion. — Louise Penny

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. — Louise Penny

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child. — Louise Penny

FINE stood for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Egotistical. — Louise Penny

Not everything needed to be brought into the light, he knew. Not every truth needed to be told. — Louise Penny

Instead he stood erect, the snow insinuating itself down his collar and up his sleeves, plastering against his face and into his unblinking eyes. — Louise Penny

He did not suggest that she sit quietly and get to know herself so she could be all the company she needed. — Louise Penny

in Beauvoir's experience losers were the most dangerous people. Because eventually they got to the stage where they had nothing more to lose. — Louise Penny

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

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

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

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

Her voice changed slightly as she remembered, "But most he loved a happy human face. — Louise Penny

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

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. — Louise Penny

A murder was never about brawn, it began and ended in the brain and the brain could justify anything. — Louise Penny

A mind with absolutely no insight into itself, a mind filled with purpose and delusion. — Louise Penny

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

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

Believe the copy of this e-book you are reading — Louise Penny

No. It was almost impossible to electrocute someone these days, unless you were the governor of Texas. — Louise Penny

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. — Louise Penny

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

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

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

In my experience people who have been hurt either pass it on and become abusive themselves or they develop a great kindness. — Louise Penny

Turmoil shook loose all sorts of unpleasant truths. But it took peace to examine them. — Louise Penny

He had his treasure, but finally all he wanted was his family. And peace. — Louise Penny

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. — Louise Penny

First two were obvious. — Louise Penny

She was scared to death. She was killed by her beliefs. By someone taking advantage of them. — Louise Penny

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

Like a first love, the place where peace is first found is never, ever forgotten. — Louise Penny

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

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

Stick. It might look familiar to some of you,' she waited — Louise Penny

But they both knew that words were weapons too, and when fashioned into a story their power was almost limitless. — Louise Penny

She wasn't afraid to be wrong. And that, the Chief knew, was a great strength. — Louise Penny

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. — Louise Penny

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

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

The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'. — Louise Penny

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

In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them. — Louise Penny

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. — Louise Penny

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

Irene Finney filled the void with a child not loved then lost, but first lost, then loved. — Louise Penny

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

Most of us are great with change, as long it was our idea. But change imposed from the outside can send some people into a tailspin. - Myrna Landers — Louise Penny

It was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. — Louise Penny

Memories can kill, Yvette. The past can reach right up and grab you and drag you to a place you shouldn't be. Like a burning building. — Louise Penny

Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr? — Louise Penny

waited on my call, nor does any — Louise Penny

was that he hadn't yet figured out — Louise Penny

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

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

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

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

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, — Louise Penny

... 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. — Louise Penny

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

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