566 Quotes by 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.

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    Champlain missing was so much more potent than Champlain found.

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    The world turned upside down,' Beauvoir continued. 'It was at once more beautiful and more frightening than you'd been led to believe. And suddenly you didn't know what to do. Who to trust. Where to turn. It's terrifying. Being lost is so much worse than being on the wrong road. That's why people stay on it for so long.

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    All my works have vessels of some sort. Containers. Sometimes it's in the negative space, sometimes it's more obvious ...He's very loyal. He puts everything he has into one thing. one interest, one hobby, one friend, one love. I'm his love and it scares the shit out of me ... He's poured all his love into me. I'm his vessel. But suppose I crack? Suppose I break? Suppose I die? What would he do?

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    She was stuffing her innards back. Sewing herself up, putting her skin, her make-up, her party frock back on.

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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.

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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.

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    «Não é dos outros, caro Brutos, a culpa, mas de nós mesmos, se nos rebaixamos ao papel de instrumentos» - in Julio Cesar de William Shakespeare

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