Louise Penny

Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.

— Louise Penny

“Can it be that you don’t trust me?”

— Louise Penny

“wondered why she chose her isolated”

— Louise Penny

“Whale oil beef hooked,”

— Louise Penny

Things are strongest where they're broken.

— Louise Penny

“Kindness beats cruelty.”

— Louise Penny

“Violent death demanded Earl Grey.”

— Louise Penny

“cobrador costume. A costume that”

— Louise Penny

“The banality of evil. It wasn’t the frothing madman. It was the conscientious us.”

— Louise Penny

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

— Louise Penny

“Clara didn't carry a grudge. They were too heavy and she had too far to go.”

— Louise Penny

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

— Louise Penny

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

— Louise Penny

“Clara didn’t carry a grudge. They were far too heavy and she had too far to go.”

— Louise Penny

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.

— Louise Penny

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

— Louise Penny

“When I’m afraid, I always ask myself, what’s the worst that can happen?” Chapter 5 · Page 41 · Location 733”

— Louise Penny

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

— Louise Penny

“Now she sat in front of him, nearly submerged under layers of thick sweaters and blankets. She looked like a laundry hamper…

— Louise Penny

“I'm sorry. I shouldn't be working." "Of course you should. I'm alright." "Even F.I.N.E.?" She laughed. "Especially that." Fucked-up. Insecure. Neurotic. Egotistical.”

— Louise Penny

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And…

— Louise Penny

“Getting in his car he let it warm up, feeling the heated seats grow warm under him. On a bitterly cold winter…

— Louise Penny

“As she got closer, Clara Morrow saw Gamache do it again. He took off his half-moon reading glasses, then”

— Louise Penny

Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. … But no. Violent death…

— Louise Penny

“But Beauvoir could feel what Ruth was sensing. Something was radiating off Gamache. Was it rage he felt from the chief? Jean-Guy…

— Louise Penny

“If you don’t know something, ask. You have to be able to admit you don’t know something, otherwise you’ll just get more…

— Louise Penny

“Armand Gamache looked across to the deep green midsummer forest and the mountains that rolled into eternity. Then his eyes dropped to…

— Louise Penny

The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for…

— Louise Penny

“Three Pines wasn’t on any tourist map, being too far off any main or even secondary road. Like Narnia, it was generally…

— Louise Penny

“We’re used to the film versions of psychopaths. The clearly crazies. But most psychopaths are clever. They have to be. They know…

— Louise Penny

Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the…

— Louise Penny

Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it…

— Louise Penny

“Eventually he'd let the answering machine take over and had hidden in his studio. Where he's hidden all his life. From the…

— Louise Penny

“We all do stupid, cruel things as children. I remember I once took a neighbor's dog and shut it in my house,…

— Louise Penny

“Clara shrugged and immediately knew her betrayal of Peter. In one easy movement she'd distanced herself from his bad behavior, even thought…

— Louise Penny

“Wait, Armand, he heard behind him but kept walking, ignoring the calls. Then he remembered what Emile had meant to him and…

— Louise Penny

“As the boys screamed and hauled off handfuls of mulch, Olivier had slowly, deliberately, gently taken Gabri’s hand and held it before…

— Louise Penny

“I spend my days looking into the last room in the house, the one we keep barred and hidden even from ourselves.…

— Louise Penny

“But in the country death comes, uninvited, during the day. It takes fishermen in their longboats. It grabs children by the ankles…

— Louise Penny

“Could someone have hated him enough to kill?” asked Gamache. “There are a lot of reasons for murder, Chief Inspector, as you…

— Louise Penny