566 Quotes by Louise Penny

…walked deep into the shadow, deep into the longhouse where all his experiences and memories lived…

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…

It was like archeology. There was digging and there was dirt. And there was broken things.

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

Not everything needed to be brought into the light, he knew. Not every truth needed to be told.

But privately Reine-Marie wondered. Wondered whether what people did in a crisis was, in fact, their real selves. Stripped of artifice and social training. It was easy enough to be decent when all was going your way. It was another matter to be decent when all hell was breaking loose.

Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction.

A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public opinion, to manufacture a common purpose or enemy. And the cornerstone of a really great movement? A powerful symbol. Take away or tarnish that and everything starts to crumble, everything’s questioned.

The night is a strawberry.