“ There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander. Louise Penny
“ …while men and women perished, and cities fell, symbols endured, grew. Symbols were immortal. Louise Penny
“ Beauvoir was quiet, watching the Chief, taking in the gleam in his eye, the enthusiasm as he described what he'd found. Not the physical landscape, but the emotional. The intellectual.Many might have… Louise Penny
“ 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… 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
“ Her voice was flat, in a way Myrna recognized from years of listening to people trying to rein in their emotions. To squash them down, flatten, them, and with them their words and their voices. Desper… Louise Penny
“ Shakespeare: …the best way to peace is to have a still and quiet conscience. Or none at all, thought Gamache. Louise Penny
“ Conscience. Imagine being pursued by your own conscience….A mountain of conscience. Throwing a lengthening shadow. Growing. Darkening. Louise Penny
“ I respect people who have such passion. Emile was saying. "I don't. I have a lot of interests, some I'm passionate about, but not to the exclusion of everything else. I sometimes wonder if that's nece… Louise Penny
“ Gamache watched the old poet. He knew what was looming behind the Mountain. What crushed all before it. The thing the Hermit most feared. The Mountain most feared.Conscience....Which is why, Gamache k… Louise Penny
“ Houses are like people, Agent Lemieux. They have secrets. I'll tell you something I've learned.'Armand Gamache dropped his voice so that Agent Lemieux had to strain to hear.'Do you know what makes us… Louise Penny
“ A murder was never about brawn, it began and ended in the brain and the brain could justify anything. Louise Penny
“ When Olivier had been taken away Gamache had sat back down and stared at the sack. what could be worse than Chaos, Despair, War?What would even the Mountain flee from? Gamache had given it a lot of th… Louise Penny
“ Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Louise Penny
“ But you knew what would happen. Why would you choose to walk right into a situation where you know the person is going to be hurtful? It kills me to see you do that, and you do it all the time. It's l… Louise Penny
“ Gamache nodded. It was what made his job so fascinating, and so difficult. How the same person could be both kind and cruel, compassionate and wretched. Unraveling a murder was more about getting to k… Louise Penny
“ They stared ahead. Silent. Morin had never realized murderers were caught in silence. But they were. Louise Penny
“ To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside?Gamache knew what happened. Everythi… Louise Penny
