Quote by Louise Penny

“Armand Gamache had always held unfashionable beliefs. He believed the light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that…

— Louise Penny

“Gamache was the best of them, the smartest and bravest and strongest because he was willing to go into his own head alone, and…

— Louise Penny

“He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory,…

— Charles Bukowski

“It was really a very simple thing, after all,—it was only that he had lived near a kind and gentle heart, and had been…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“He had a singularly charming smile, and it ensured for him, no matter how exacting might be his demands, the uncomplaining exertions of his…

— Georgette Heyer

“...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who…

— Daphne du Maurier

“We were bullied, broken, built up, bronzed and polished. We grew dull, dusty, doubtful, dark, and forgetful. Yet we still know that we can…

— Antonia Perdu

“He could be kind, when kindness lured a person to take a sip of poison.”

— Veronica Rossi

“All his gentleness, all his kindness, all the bright shining gorgeousness of his love, he had always given to someone else.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

“But he was thankful for the offer and dimly he was beginning to formulate in his mind the feeling that the world is made…

— Gene Stratton-Porter