566 Quotes by Louise Penny

What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

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.

After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, 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. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

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.

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.

The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.