Louise Penny Quotes

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

I’m sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don’t know.

Plenty of time for a close friendship to turn to hate. As only a good friendship could. The conduit to the heart was already created.

To remain conscious and continent was her new goal.

You’re lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?

I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong.

Sounds like being a therapist. People normally came into my office because something happened. Someone had died, or betrayed them. Their love wasn’t reciprocated. They’d lost a job. Gotten divorced. Something big. But the truth was, while that might’ve been the catalyst, the problem was almost always tiny and old and hidden.

Patience. Patience. With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power.

Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it showed with every syllable. Gamache knew it was impossible to split language from culture. That without one the other withered. To love the language was to respect the culture.

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

Your brain is your weapon.

If less was more, she had a great deal.

He often said that words told them what someone was thinking, but the tone told them how they felt.

Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.

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.