566 Quotes by Louise Penny

What could be worse? Dying, and not being missed.

All will be as it should, if we just do our best.

Where once his grandparents put up crucifixes and images of the benediction on their walls, he and Reine-Marie put up books on theirs. History books. Reference books. Biographies. Fiction, nonfiction. Stories lined the walls and both insulated them from the outside world and connected them to it.

We don’t just sing; we are the song.

Things are strongest where they’re broken.

He stared for ten seconds or more, which, when eating a chocolate cake isn’t much, but when staring, is.

Waiting for someone to save them. Expecting someone to save them or at least protect them from the big, bad world. The thing is no one else can save them because the problem is theirs and so is the solution. Only they can get out of it.

I asked him to leave because he stopped caring for me, stopped supporting me. Not because I’d stopped caring for him.

Are you enjoying your suffering? You must be, to hold on to it so tightly.