566 Quotes by Louise Penny

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

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.

Gabri plugged the oven and the espresso machine into the generator,’ explained Olivier. ‘No lights, but we have the necessities.

But I understand your doubts. They’re what make you a great man, not your certainties.

There seems such a fine line between falling into place and falling apart.

No. The real danger in a garden came from the bindweed. That moved underground, then surfaced and took hold. Strangling plant after healthy plant. Killing them all, slowly. And for no apparent reason, except that it was its nature. And then it disappeared underground again.

He felt like a mobile library. Where other investigators gathered fingerprints and evidence, he gathered books.

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.

Life is change. If you aren’t growing and evolving, you’re standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.