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He was drawn to the edge of things. To the places old mariners knew, and warned, "Beyond here be monsters." ... He stepped into the beyond, and found the monsters hidden deep inside all the reasonable, gentle, laughing people. He went where even they were afraid to go. -- Louise Penny
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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
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Ruth whacked the seat beside her on the sofa, in what could only be interpreted as an invitation. It was like receiving a personalized Molotov cocktail. Gamache -- Louise Penny
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A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react. -- Louise Penny
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The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first time, at the perfection of nature where leaves were most beautiful at the very end of their lives. -- Louise Penny
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Clara tried to give the eulogy, but couldn't speak. Her words stuck at the lump in her throat. And so Myrna took over, holding her hand while Clara stood beside her. -- Louise Penny
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You didn't just lose a loved one. You lost your heart, your memories, your laughter, your brain and it even took your bones. Eventually, it all came back, but different. Rearranged. -- Louise Penny
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He was like an addict before a fix. Book freaks are like that, and not just old guys. Look at kids lining up for the latest installment of their favorite books. Stories, they're addictive." Gamache -- Louise Penny
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Julian of Norwich, -- Louise Penny
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You can tell a lot about a man by his friends, or lack of them. Do they bring out the best in each other, or are they always gossiping, tearing others down? Keeping wounds alive? -- Louise Penny
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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
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I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write. -- Louise Penny
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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
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... 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
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Good hearts get hurt. Good hearts get broken, Armand. And then they lash out. -- Louise Penny
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What killed people wasn't a bullet, a blade, a fist to the face. What killed people was a feeling. Left too long. Sometimes in the cold, frozen. Sometimes buried and fetid. And sometimes on the shores of a lake, isolated. Left to grow old, and odd. -- Louise Penny
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Life is loss. But out of that, as the book stresses, comes freedom. If we can accept that nothing is permanent, and change is inevitable, if we can adapt, then we're going to be happier people. -- Louise Penny
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Sometimes life goes in a direction not of our choosing," said the minister, softly. "That's why we need to adapt. It's never too late to change direction. -- Louise Penny
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And yet,' Gamache continued in a pleasant voice, 'isn't that what's often taught in meditation? Not the absence of emotion, or swallowing them, but not allowing them to run the show? -- Louise Penny
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You know Gabri, he wears his heart on his sleeve.' In fact, there were times Olivier wondered whether Gabri hadn't been born inside out. -- Louise Penny
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The only thing money really buys? ... Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money. -- Louise Penny
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Conscience. Imagine being pursued by your own conscience ... .A mountain of conscience. Throwing a lengthening shadow. Growing. Darkening. -- Louise Penny
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Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out. -- Louise Penny
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circling the green. She -- Louise Penny
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They stole the files of everyone who was involved in the raid. Who came to you for help. Who told you everything. All their fears, their vulnerabilities. What they want from life. What matters to them. A road map in their heads. -- Louise Penny
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The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read.
They mothered each other. -- Louise Penny
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He had loads of colleagues, acquaintances, buddies. He was an emotional communist. Everyone counted equally, but none too much. -- Louise Penny
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... it's not the truth about others that will set you free, but the truth about yourself. -- Louise Penny
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In Beauvoir's experience Darwin was way wrong. The fittest didn't survive, they were killed by the idiocy of their neighbors, who continued to bumble along oblivious. -- Louise Penny
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and volunteering in the community. Mind, body, and spirit, the cadets were told. Over and -- Louise Penny
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Some other brown stuff that might not be mud into her tangled hair. All around, villagers wandered with their baskets of brightly colored eggs, looking for the perfect hiding places. Ruth Zardo sat on the bench in the middle of the green tossing -- Louise Penny
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She'd arrived a self-sufficient city woman, and now she was covered in snow, sitting on a bench beside a crazy person, and she had a duck on her lap. Who was nuts now? -- Louise Penny
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Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived. -- Louise Penny
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I know how precious life is. You had no right to take Renaud's and you have no right to take your own now. Not over this. Too much death. It needs to stop. -- Louise Penny
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Peter always had a 'best before' date stamped on his forehead," said Ruth. "People who live in their heads do. They start out well enough, but eventually they run out of ideas. And if there's no imagination, no inspiration to fall back on? Then what? -- Louise Penny
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It is very, very dangerous to come between a person and their beliefs. -- Louise Penny
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Not a spoon clinked against a mug, not a creamer was popped, peeled and opened, not a breath. It was as though something else had joined them then. As though silence had taken a seat. -- Louise Penny
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Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner -- Louise Penny
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Irene Finney, like many very elderly people, knew that the world was indeed flat. It had a beginning and an end. And she had come to the edge. -- Louise Penny
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Armand Gamache had always held unfashionable beliefs. He believed the light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits. -- Louise Penny
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... in the library ... surrounded by things far more dangerous than what roamed the school corridors. For here thoughts were housed. -- Louise Penny
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I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life. -- Louise Penny
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Do you know, Armand, I can't remember the last time I felt safe." "I know what you mean," said Gamache. "It feels as though this has been going on forever." "No, I don't mean just this mess. I mean all my life. -- Louise Penny
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Armand Gamache found murderers by following the trail of rancid emotions. Beside -- Louise Penny
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Time, it covered over everything eventually. Events, people, memory. Chiniquy had disappeared beneath Time. -- Louise Penny
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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
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Saw Gamache shaking his head he reconsidered. Not the maps? -- Louise Penny
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He'd come to agree with Sister Prejean that no one was as bad as the worst thing they'd done. -- Louise Penny
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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
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Gamache had been to Three Pines on previous investigations and each time he'd had the feeling he belonged. It was a powerful feeling. After all, what else did people really want except to belong? He -- Louise Penny
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat? Gamache asked Ruth. The elderly woman held his eyes -- Louise Penny
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Yes, I do. The ones who aren't growing and evolving, who are standing still. They're the ones who rarely got better.' 'Yes, that was it,' said Gamache. 'They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.' 'Ben,' said Peter. -- Louise Penny
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Chief Inspector Gamache knew one thing about hate. It bound you forever to the person you hated. Murder wasn't committed out of hate, it was done as a terrible act of freedom. To finally rid yourself of the burden. -- Louise Penny
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Where other women ... were lovely, Annie Gamache was alive.
Late, too late, Jean Guy Beauvoir had come to appreciate how very important it was, how very attractive it was, how very rare it was, to be fully alive. -- Louise Penny
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Gamache enjoyed going to churches for their music and the beauty of the language and the stillness. But he felt closer to God in his Volvo. -- Louise Penny
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Do you know what I've learned, after three decades of death?" Gamache asked, leaning toward the agent and lowering his voice. Despite himself, the agent leaned forward. "I've learned how precious life is. -- Louise Penny
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Our lives are like a house. Some people are allowed on the lawn, some onto the porch, some get into the vestibule or the kitchen. The better friends are invited deeper into our home, into our living room.'
'And some are let into the bedroom,' said Gamache. -- Louise Penny
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Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson."
"Lake and Palmer?"
"Ralph and Waldo. -- Louise Penny
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People instinctively let down their guard when they saw a limp, an illness, a flaw in someone else. Not out of compassion but because it made them feel superior. Stronger. Those people, Gamache knew, did not always last long. It was not a useful instinct. -- Louise Penny
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Old sins have long shadows," said Gamache. "And this is an old sin. -- Louise Penny
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When senior officers start shooting each other, it's time to leave," said Gamache. "I'm sure it's somewhere in the regulations. -- Louise Penny
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Annie laughed. She had a face, a body, made not for a Paris runway but for good meals and books by the fire and laughter. She was constructed from, and for, happiness. But it had taken Annie Gamache a long while to find it. To trust it. -- Louise Penny
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Shakespeare: ... the best way to peace is to have a still and quiet conscience. Or none at all, thought Gamache. -- Louise Penny
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One day that ego of yours'll kill you. That's all it is, you know. You pretend it's selfless, you pretend to be the great teacher, the wise and patient Armand Gamache, but you and I both know it's ego. Pride. Be careful, my friend. She's dangerous. You've said so yourself. -- Louise Penny
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How close you came to dying? I did." "Maybe this is why I didn't." Hancock regarded Gamache. "Are you saying you were spared to stop me from jumping over the cliff? -- Louise Penny
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They'd reached St Thomas's and climbed the half-dozen wooden steps to the small veranda. Gamache -- Louise Penny
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Gamache had asked not because he didn't know the answer, but because he wanted to see if Peter would lie to him. He had. And if he'd lie about that, what else had he lied about? -- Louise Penny
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Gamache in anger. "He knew that's -- Louise Penny
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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
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Armand Gamache had seen the worst. But he'd also seen the best. Often in the same person. -- Louise Penny
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But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas. -- Louise Penny
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Gamache wondered how low the bar was set when all a man had to do to attract a woman was not smell like decomposing bears. -- Louise Penny
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His heart filled his chest and ran to the end of his tail and the very tips of his considerable ears. It filled his head, squeezing out his brain. But Henri, the foundling, was a humanist, and while not particularly clever was the smartest creature Gamache knew. Everything he knew he knew by heart. -- Louise Penny
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For Armand Gamache knew what not-nice was. He knew what cruelty, despair, horror were. And he knew what a forgotten, and precious quality 'nice'was. -- Louise Penny
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Chief Superintendent Arnot might hold power, but Armand Gamache was the more powerful man. -- Louise Penny
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It was said with humor, but the criticism wasn't lost on Gamache. He was fishing, and he knew it. So did Sommes. So did Esther. We're all fishermen, she'd said. -- Louise Penny
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As she got closer, Clara Morrow saw Gamache do it again. He took off his half-moon reading glasses, then -- Louise Penny
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In the kitchen Gamache's German shepherd, Henri, sat up in his bed and cocked his head. He had huge oversized ears which made Gamache think he wasn't purebred but a cross between a shepherd and a satellite dish. -- Louise Penny
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Gamache was the best of them, the smartest and bravest and strongest because he was willing to go into his own head alone, and open all the doors there, and enter all the dark rooms. And make friends with what he found there. -- Louise Penny
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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
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Why did he kill his own mother?' Ruth asked.
'The oldest story in the book,' said Gamache.
'Ben was a male prostitute?' Gabri exclaimed.
'That's the oldest profession. Where do you keep your head?' asked Ruth. 'Never mind, don't answer that. -- Louise Penny
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The reason "belonging" was so potent, so attractive, so much a part of the human yearning, was that it also meant safety, and loyalty. If you were "one of us" you were protected. -- Louise Penny
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Beauvoir knew that the root of all evil wasn't money. No, what created and drove evil was fear. Fear of not having enough money, enough food, enough land, enough power, enough security, enough love. Fear of not getting what you want, or losing what you have. -- Louise Penny
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Not everyone makes the boat, she thought. -- Louise Penny
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Light is every bit as challenging as dark. We can discover a great deal about ourselves by looking at beauty. -- Louise Penny
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In a life filled with great good fortune of health, of creativity, of friends, living in safety and privilege with the loving partner. There was just one bit of misfortune in his life and that was that Peter Morrow seemed to have no idea how very fortunate he was. -- Louise Penny
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But I understand your doubts. They're what make you a great man, not your certainties. -- Louise Penny
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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
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Corruption and brutality are modeled and expected and rewarded. It becomes normal. And anyone who stands up to it, who tells them it's wrong, is beaten down. Or worse. -- Louise Penny
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A bare bulb swished from side to side. Dust floated in what little light it threw and cobwebs hung from the rafters. It smelled of spiders. -- Louise Penny
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Had CC de Poitiers known she was going to be murdered she might have bought her husband, Richard, a Christmas gift. -- Louise Penny
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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
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Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make -- Louise Penny
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Relationship never starts with a fist to the face, or an insult. If it did there'd be no second date. It always starts gently. Kindly. The other person draws you in. To trust them. To need them. And then they slowly turn. Little by little, increasing the heat. Until you're trapped. -- Louise Penny
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He read the familiar first lines of the book and felt the calm come over him, like a comforter. -- Louise Penny
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An unsuspected yearning uncovered, discovered. For a simpler time and a simpler life. Before Internet, and climate change, and terrorism. When neighbors worked together, and separation was not a topic or an issue or wise. -- Louise Penny
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... struck. Once. And into that blow he put his childhood, his grief, his loss. He put his mother's sorrow and his sister's longing. The menorah, weighed down with that, crushed the Hermit's skull. -- Louise Penny
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A coy smile could capture him, but it was finally a hearty laugh that had freed him. -- Louise Penny
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was that he hadn't yet figured out -- Louise Penny
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But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act.
Still Life -- Louise Penny
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His theory is that life is loss,' said Myrna after a moment. 'Loss of parents, loss of loves, loss of jobs. So we have to find a higher meaning in our lives than these things and people. Otherwise we'll lose ourselves. -- Louise Penny
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All that had been trivial, that had been comforting and familiar and safe, now seemed to be strapped with explosives. -- Louise Penny
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Her tragedy was that she always found men to save her. She never had to save herself. She never knew she could. -- Louise Penny
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Now here's a good one:
you're lying on your deathbed.
You have one hour to live.
Who is it, exactly, you have needed
all these years to forgive? -- Louise Penny
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Thinking is an action, -- Louise Penny
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It is sweet and right to die for your country ... . an old and dangerous lie. It might be necessary, but it is never sweet and rarely right. It's a tragedy. -- Louise Penny
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She'd never actually smiled at a family reunion before. It felt odd. -- Louise Penny
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Her voice changed slightly as she remembered, "But most he loved a happy human face. -- Louise Penny
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Like the street his gallery was on, Fortin had an attractive front, hiding quite a foul interior. He was opportunistic. He fed on the talent of others. Got rich on the talent of others. While most of the artists themselves barely scraped by, and took all the risks. -- Louise Penny
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Getting in his car he let it warm up, feeling the heated seats grow warm under him. On a bitterly cold winter day it was almost as good as sex. Then -- Louise Penny
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When someone shoots at us, we return fire," said Jean-Guy. Now Jacques did nod. "But it's equally important that when someone is kind to us, we return that as well, -- Louise Penny
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Four days. And she had two gay sons, a large black mother, a demented poet for a friend and was considering getting a duck. It was not what she'd expected from this visit. -- Louise Penny
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Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were. -- Louise Penny
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That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad. -- Louise Penny
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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
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In trying to capture the beautiful mystery, this monk had invented written music. Not yet notes, what he'd written became known as neumes. -- Louise Penny
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I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters. -- Louise Penny
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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. -- Louise Penny
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Things are strongest where they're broken. -- Louise Penny
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Everything he let go of had claw marks on it. -- Louise Penny
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You mean if a good hunter did this it was on purpose? -- Louise Penny
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Do you know why we're all happy here, monsieur? Because it's the last house on the road. -- Louise Penny
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His cell phone didn't work in Three Pines, and neither did email. He almost expected to see messages fluttering back and forth in the sky above the village, unable to descend. -- Louise Penny
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How do your poems start out?" "They start as a lump in the throat," she said. "Isn't that normally just a cocktail olive lodged there?" Olivier asked. "Once," Ruth admitted. "Wrote quite a good poem before I coughed it up. -- Louise Penny
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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. Desperately trying to make the horrific sound mundane. -- Louise Penny
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The Chief walked back to headquarters, taking his time. His gloved hands held each other behind his back. The sound of Christmas carols in his ears. And as he walked, he hummed. He'd done what he went there to do. -- Louise Penny
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In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch. That lasted a while,' she admitted. 'Now all I really crave is a good bowel movement. -- Louise Penny
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This used to be my drug of choice. In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch. -- Louise Penny
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Irene Finney filled the void with a child not loved then lost, but first lost, then loved. -- Louise Penny
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Now she sat in front of him, nearly submerged under layers of thick sweaters and blankets. She looked like a laundry hamper without a head. -- Louise Penny
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A mind with absolutely no insight into itself, a mind filled with purpose and delusion. -- Louise Penny
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Peter Morrow took no risks. He neither failed nor succeeded. There were no valleys, but neither were there mountains. Peter's landscape was flat. An endless, predictable desert. -- Louise Penny
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People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of the stories as real, and some as fiction. But she honored them all, though she didn't buy every one. -- Louise Penny
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Like a first love, the place where peace is first found is never, ever forgotten. -- Louise Penny
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He stared for ten seconds or more, which, when eating a chocolate cake isn't much, but when staring, is. -- Louise Penny
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Olivier looked at him blankly. But the Chief Inspector had seen that look before. It was, in fact, almost impossible to look blank. Unless the person wanted to. A blank face to the Chief Inspector meant a frantic mind. -- Louise Penny
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Be careful. You're making hurting a habit. Spreading it around won't lessen your pain, you know. Just the opposite. -- Louise Penny
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Do you know the sums that I do?" "I count my blessings. -- Louise Penny
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What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured a loneliness I never knew I had. It gave me joy. And freedom. I think that was the most amazing part. I suddenly felt both embraced and freed at the same time. -- Louise Penny
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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
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Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed. -- Louise Penny
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When does a bush that burns become a Burning Bush? -- Louise Penny
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The very force of his personality both created and crippled. How much more could he have accomplished had he been kinder? But then, dynamism and kindness often don't go together ... -- Louise Penny
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The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life. -- Louise Penny
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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
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He knew time could heal. But it could also do more damage. A forest fire, spread over time, would consume everything. -- Louise Penny
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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
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Why do decent young men and women become bullies? Why do soldiers dream of being heroes but end up abusing prisoners and shooting civilians? Why do politicians become corrupt? Why do cops beat suspects senseless and break the laws they're meant to protect? -- Louise Penny
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I asked him to leave because he stopped caring for me, stopped supporting me. Not because I'd stopped caring for him. -- Louise Penny
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Paul Hiebert's Sarah Binks, the cover said. -- Louise Penny
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Have you noticed that more people seem to be dying than are being born? Bean asked, handing the section to Finney, who took it and nodded solemnly.
"That means there's more for those of us still here." He handed the section back.
"I don't want more," said Bean.
"You will. -- Louise Penny
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table, -- Louise Penny
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The feelings flattened and folded and turned into something else, like emotional origami. -- Louise Penny
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Not everything buried is actually dead. For many, the past is alive. -- Louise Penny
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There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander. -- Louise Penny
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They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves. -- Louise Penny
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Dr. Vincent Gilbert lived in the heart of the forest. Away from human conflict, but also away from human contact. It was a compromise he was more than happy to make. -- Louise Penny
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That was why she was happy. He now knew that happiness ad kindness went together. There was not one without the other. For Jean-Guy it was a struggle. For Annie it seemed natural. -- Louise Penny
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No one could look at the beautiful young man now. They dropped their eyes from the scalding sight. From the eclipse. As all that love turned into hate. -- Louise Penny
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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
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The fault lies with us, and only us. It's not fate, not genetics, not bad luck, and it's definitely not Mom and Dad. Ultimately it's us and our choices ... but the most powerful spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well. -- Louise Penny
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I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank. -- Louise Penny
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Everyone was getting married and it seemed like fun. I -- Louise Penny
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she'd forgotten snow could be quite so beautiful. Snow, in her experience, was something that needed to be removed. It was a chore that fell from the sky. But -- Louise Penny
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All children are sad,
but some get over it. -- Louise Penny
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It's so easy to get mired in the all too obvious cruelty of the world. It's natural. But to really heal, we need to recognize the goodness too. -- Louise Penny
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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
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The four sayings that lead to wisdom:
I was wrong
I'm sorry
I don't know
I need help -- Louise Penny
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If love was compass enough, said Armand quietly, there would be no missing children. -- Louise Penny
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When my death us do part
Then shall forgiven and forgiving meet again,
Or will it be, as always was, too late? -- Louise Penny
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I think you might try leading your life as though it's just you. If he comes back and you know your life will be better with him, then great. But you'll also know you're enough on your own. -- Louise Penny
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And Beauvoir knew then the man was a saint. He's been touched by any number of medical men and women. All healers, all well intentioned, some kind, some rough. All made it clear they wanted him to live, but none had made him feel that his life was precious, was worth saving, was worth something. -- Louise Penny
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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
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she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. -- Louise Penny
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We can all fall," said the abbot. "But perhaps not as hard and not as fast and not as far as someone who spends his life on the ascent. -- Louise Penny
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Sobriety isn't for cowards, Chief Inspector. Whatever you might think of an alcoholic, to get sober, really sober demands great honesty, and that demands great courage. Stopping drinking's the easy part. Then we have to face ourselves. Our demons. How many people are willing to do that? -- Louise Penny
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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 of the toque crowned the cuff followed by his mitts, like a tiny birth. -- Louise Penny
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Young Langlois had sat down and gathered that power to him. The power that came from having information, knowledge, thoughts, and a calm place to collect them. -- Louise Penny
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Things were not as they seemed. The known world was shifting, reforming. Everything he'd taken as a given, a fact, as real and unquestioned, had fallen away. But -- Louise Penny
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A murder was never about brawn, it began and ended in the brain and the brain could justify anything. -- Louise Penny
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Control your thoughts and you can control your emotions. Do you trust me? -- Louise Penny
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I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know. -- Louise Penny
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Now there will be no more loneliness," said the minister, as he gave his final blessing on the couple. Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the days of your togetherness. And may your days be good and long upon the earth. -- Louise Penny
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Had peace and quiet become so rare that when finally found they could be mistaken for something grotesque and unnatural? It would appear so. -- Louise Penny
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He did not suggest that she sit quietly and get to know herself so she could be all the company she needed. -- Louise Penny
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Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful. -- Louise Penny
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A therapist has to have clear boundaries, even with former clients. People already get into our heads - if they also get into our lives, there's a problem. -- Louise Penny
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A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. -- Louise Penny
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Rules meant order. Without them they'd be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder. -- Louise Penny
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But they both knew that words were weapons too, and when fashioned into a story their power was almost limitless. -- Louise Penny
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Pierre Patenaude, whom she was currently interviewing, had just explained that the staff changed almost every year, so it was necessary to train most of them. "Do you have trouble holding on to staff?" she asked. "Mais, non," Madame Dubois said. Agent Lacoste had -- Louise Penny
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He felt like a mobile library. Where other investigators gathered fingerprints and evidence, he gathered books. -- Louise Penny
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Believe in using your head. But not in spending too much time in there. Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other. -- Louise Penny
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Where once his grandparents put up crucifixes and images of the benediction on their walls, he and Reine-Marie put up books on theirs. History books. Reference books. Biographies. Fiction, nonfiction. Stories lined the walls and both insulated them from the outside world and connected them to it. -- Louise Penny
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I don't know what came over me. It's like sometimes when it's very quiet I feel like screaming. And sometimes when I'm holding something delicate I feel like dropping it. I don't know why. -- Louise Penny
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The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'. -- Louise Penny
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To live in chaos was to live in a prison. Order freed the mind for other things. -- Louise Penny
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We knew who would want him found, Dr Croix, but who wants him to remain buried? -- Louise Penny
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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. -- Louise Penny
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his son in Paris and left a message with -- Louise Penny
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... believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn't. -- Louise Penny
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There is a balm in Gilead
to make the wounded whole. -- Louise Penny
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Now he had her full attention. Not only because she wanted to know what had happened, but because anyone who'd get up at two in the morning to smack a melon in the dark deserved attention. Perhaps even medical attention. -- Louise Penny
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Gabri plugged the oven and the espresso machine into the generator,' explained Olivier. 'No lights, but we have the necessities. -- Louise Penny
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His skin was pocked and ruddy, his nose large and misshapen, red and veined as though he'd snorted, and retained, Burgundy. -- Louise Penny
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She was stuffing her innards back. Sewing herself up, putting her skin, her make-up, her party frock back on. -- Louise Penny
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Surprised by Joy Professor -- Louise Penny
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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 like a form of insanity. - Peter Morrow
You call it insanity, I call it optimism. - Clara Morrow -- Louise Penny
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Sometimes the beard was loose, sometimes it was braided and sometimes, like that afternoon, it was in its own ponytail so that Al's head looked like something about to be tie-dyed. -- Louise Penny
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I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me. -- Louise Penny
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Some people keep their darkness inside, and some hide their light. You, mon ami, almost certainly have a croissant in there. -- Louise Penny
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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
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They stared ahead. Silent. Morin had never realized murderers were caught in silence. But they were. -- Louise Penny
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He had his treasure, but finally all he wanted was his family. And peace. -- Louise Penny
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Nature, she knew, abhorred a vacuum, and these people, faced with an information vacuum, had filled it with their fears. -- Louise Penny
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Where there is love there is courage,
where there is courage there is peace,
where there is peace there is God.
And when you have God, you have everything. -- Louise Penny
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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
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And I would never, ever mock the power of love. But it can also distort. Slip over into desperation and delusion. -- Louise Penny
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her book. Ngaio Marsh. Myrna was re-reading the classics. -- Louise Penny
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She'd forgotten to love, but she also forgot to hate. (about Clara's mother, who had dementia) -- Louise Penny
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Precision and clarity where the police -- Louise Penny
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Your beliefs become your thoughts Your thoughts become your words Your words become your actions Your actions become your destiny. -- Louise Penny
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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
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You too?" She asked Ruth. "How do your poems start out?"
"They start as a lump in the throat," she said. -- Louise Penny
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But Armand always said people react differently to death, and it was folly to judge anyone and double folly to judge what people do when faced with sudden, violent death. Murder. They weren't themselves. -- Louise Penny
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Their creations eventually die of neglect, of malnourishment. And sometimes, when that happens the artist also dies. -- Louise Penny
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Love wants the best for others. Attachment takes hostages. -- Louise Penny
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Joy doesn't ever leave, you know. It's always with you. And one day you'll find it again. -- Louise Penny
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When Peter walked into a room he always swept it until he found Clara. And then he relaxed. -- Louise Penny
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When put in a room with both parents, would almost always embrace the abuser. -- Louise Penny
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Just because it's the truth doesn't make it less insulting. -- Louise Penny
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There are four statements that lead to wisdom. I want you to remember them and follow them. Are you ready?' Agent Lemieux had taken out his notebook and, pen poised, he'd listened. 'You need to learn to say: I don't know. I'm sorry. I need help and I was wrong. -- Louise Penny
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She was scared to death. She was killed by her beliefs. By someone taking advantage of them. -- Louise Penny
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He tried to let her know it would be all right. Eventually. Life wouldn't always be this painful. The world wouldn't always be this brutal. Give it time, little one. Give it another chance. Come back. -- Louise Penny
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You weren't lost. You were exploring. There's a difference. -- Louise Penny
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Not everyone's an explorer, and not every explorer makes it back alive. That's why it takes so much courage. -- Louise Penny
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While forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave. -- Louise Penny
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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
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No, I don't. I find them very superficial. Calculated. He's a good artist, but I think he could be a great one, if he could use more instinct and less technique. He's a very good draftsman. -- Louise Penny
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Clara didn't carry a grudge. They were too heavy and she had too far to go. -- Louise Penny
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She picked up her book and tried to read but it was heavy in her hands. She struggled to hold it, wanting to finish the story, wanting to know how it ended. She was afraid she'd run out of time before she ran out of book. -- Louise Penny
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Yeti. Big Foot. There was some old creature his grandmother had told him about. The Green Man. Half man, half tree. This was him. Beauvoir gripped his stick. -- Louise Penny
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A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel. -- Louise Penny
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They were home. He always felt a bit like a snail, but instead of carrying his home on his back, he carried it in his arms. -- Louise Penny
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Funny how imperfections on the outside mean something splendid beneath. -- Louise Penny
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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
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In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them. -- Louise Penny
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So that over time, clever became cunning. Dynamic became obsessed. Ambitious became ruthless. -- Louise Penny
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He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dark, very cunning. -- Louise Penny
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my beliefs comfort, they don't kill. -- Louise Penny
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Myrna...prayed God wasn't one of of the men or women she'd betrayed by signing their release. Myrna's weight wasn't all carried around her middle. -- Louise Penny
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What are you afraid of?
I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise. -- Louise Penny
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We choose our thoughts. We choose our perceptions. We choose our attitudes -- Louise Penny
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She wasn't afraid to be wrong. And that, the Chief knew, was a great strength. -- Louise Penny
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Love and worry. They went hand in hand. Fellow travelers. -- Louise Penny
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Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success. -- Louise Penny
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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
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Most people want to be led. But suppose they choose the wrong leader? They end up with the Donner party. -- Louise Penny
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This village has known loss, people killed before their time, accidents, war, disease. Three Pines isn't immune to any of that. But you seem to accept it as part of life and not hang on to the bitterness. -- Louise Penny
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Sometimes the only way up is down. Sometimes the only way forward is to back up. -- Louise Penny
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When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain. -- Louise Penny
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Matthew 10:36," he'd said. "And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. Never forget that, Agent Lacoste. -- Louise Penny
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If less was more, she had a great deal. -- Louise Penny
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Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr? -- Louise Penny
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Violent death demanded Earl Grey. -- Louise Penny
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I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, I might be wrong. -- Louise Penny
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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
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If you pretend to know you aren't going to actually learn. -- Louise Penny
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A brave man in a brave country. It was easy to be brave, when the country was also brave. But what happened if it wasn't? If it was corrupt, and grotesque, and greedy, and violent? -- Louise Penny
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The Chief believed if you sift through evil, at the very bottom you'll find good. He believed that evil has its limits. Beauvoir didn't. He believed that if you sift through good, you'll find evil. Without borders, without brakes, without limit. -- Louise Penny
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FINE stood for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Egotistical. -- Louise Penny
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Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience. -- Louise Penny
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Had he inadvertently made the famed homicide department of the Surete an island? Far from saving careers of promising agents, had he in fact imprisoned them, kept them from the mainland of their peers? -- Louise Penny
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What's the use of healing, if the life that's saved is callow and selfish and ruled by fear? There's a difference between being in sanctuary and being in hiding. -- Louise Penny
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Turmoil shook loose all sorts of unpleasant truths. But it took peace to examine them. -- Louise Penny
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New Brunswick. Shediac. Lobster Capital of the World. -- Louise Penny
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Until the Quiet Revolution gave women back their bodies and Quebeckers back their lives. It invited the church to leave the womb and restrict itself to the altar. It almost worked. -- Louise Penny
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... walked deep into the shadow, deep into the longhouse where all his experiences and memories lived ... -- Louise Penny
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Peter bent and examined the pile. Only country people, thought Beauvoir, were endlessly fascinated by shit. Country people and parents. -- Louise Penny
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But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage. -- Louise Penny
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Peter's a lucky man except in one respect, he doesn't seem to know how lucky he is. -- Louise Penny
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All will be as it should, if we just do our best. -- Louise Penny
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Gabri and Myrna were very rich indeed, rich in the things that matter. In friendships and laughter, in kindness and company. People rich in money might belong at the Inn and Spa, but those rich in other ways belonged in the tiny village of Three Pines. Here, kindness was the real currency. -- Louise Penny
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Abby Hoffman said we should all eat what we kill. That would put an end to war. -- Louise Penny
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First two were obvious. -- Louise Penny
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This was the great benefit of seeing worse. Fewer things worried him now. -- Louise Penny
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Not everything needed to be brought into the light, he knew. Not every truth needed to be told. -- Louise Penny
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Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality. -- Louise Penny
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The Stalker by Gail Anderson-Dargatz In From the Cold by Deborah Ellis Shipwreck by Maureen Jennings The Picture of Nobody by Rabindranath Maharaj The Hangman by Louise Penny Easy Money by Gail Vaz-Oxlade 2011 -- Louise Penny
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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
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Most unhappiness comes from not being able to sit quietly in a room. -- Louise Penny
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Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are. -- Louise Penny
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No. It was almost impossible to electrocute someone these days, unless you were the governor of Texas. -- Louise Penny
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We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count? -- Louise Penny
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When you've seen the worst,
You appreciate the best. -- Louise Penny
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Believe the copy of this e-book you are reading -- Louise Penny
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But odd as his family might be, they were nothing compared to this. In fact, that was one of the great comforts of his job. At least his family compared well to people who actually killed each other, rather than just thought about it. -- Louise Penny
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A Brave Man in a Brave Country Surprised -- Louise Penny
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Anyone so damaged as to cause this much harm led a life full of secrets and full of enemies. -- Louise Penny
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Stick. It might look familiar to some of you,' she waited -- Louise Penny
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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
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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
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Oscar Wilde said that conscience and cowardice are the same thing. What stops us from doing horrible things isn't our conscience but the fear of getting caught. -- Louise Penny
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And fear. High school smelled of that more than anything else, even more than sweaty feet, cheap perfume and rotten bananas. -- Louise Penny
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Champlain missing was so much more potent than Champlain found. -- Louise Penny
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It's vital to hear your own language, to see it written, to see it valued. -- Louise Penny
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Clara was that rare combination: she was sensible and sensitive. -- Louise Penny
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Hope offered, then denied. A particular cruelty. -- Louise Penny
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want to crawl inside his skin and wrap herself around his -- Louise Penny
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They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.
"You?"
"Great."
They'd trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence. -- Louise Penny
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And this was what a couple of that age looked like. If they were lucky. -- Louise Penny
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What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity. -- Louise Penny
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What could be worse? Dying, and not being missed. -- Louise Penny
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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
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Ruth believed in precycling. An evolution on recycling. She made use of things before people threw them out. -- Louise Penny
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It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same. -- Louise Penny
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he wondered whether it was always the young who were brave. And the old grew fearful and cowardly. Was -- Louise Penny
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How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel. -- Louise Penny
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In my experience people who have been hurt either pass it on and become abusive themselves or they develop a great kindness. -- Louise Penny
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When I miss things or let them pass they gather in a heap then rise up and take a life. So, I try not to. -- Louise Penny
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The glass was old. Leaded. Imperfect. And it was the imperfections that were creating the play of light. -- Louise Penny
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Ahead. But at his core he believed the world a lovely place. And his -- Louise Penny
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Happy people didn't drink themselves to sleep every night. -- Louise Penny
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the answers lay in flesh and blood, not in a book and not in a report. And so often not even in things corporeal, but in something that couldn't be held and contained and touched. The answers to his questions lay in the murky past and in the emotions hidden there. The -- Louise Penny
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You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?" Myrna -- Louise Penny
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They kill. To feel safe. It almost never worked. -- Louise Penny
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The night is a strawberry. -- Louise Penny
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To remain conscious and continent was her new goal. -- Louise Penny
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than men, that's all I figured it was.' 'How'd you -- Louise Penny
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... while men and women perished, and cities fell, symbols endured, grew. Symbols were immortal. -- Louise Penny
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waited on my call, nor does any -- Louise Penny