566 Quotes by Louise Penny

Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived.

They stared ahead. Silent. Morin had never realized murderers were caught in silence. But they were.

You can't get milk from a hardware store.So stop asking for something that can't be given. And look for what is offered.

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.

You were going to say the Death Star, weren’t you?”“Well, yes. If you can quote poetry, I can reference Star Wars.

Don't believe everything you think.

The morning after their deaths, Armand had gone into their room. The scent of them, the sense of them, almost too much to bear. The clothing. The book. The bookmark. The bedside clock, still ticking. He'd thought that strange. Surely it should have stopped.

Entitlement was, she knew, a terrible thing. It chained the person to their victimhood. It gobbled up all the air around it. Until the person lived in a vacuum, where nothing good could flourish.

…while men and women perished, and cities fell, symbols endured, grew. Symbols were immortal.