566 Quotes by Louise Penny

In the kingdom of the blind, Amelia recited to herself as she trudged along – – the one-eyed man is king, Gamache read.

You’re wrong there,’ said Ruth, following Myrna’s gaze. ‘This used to be my drug of choice. In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch. That lasted a while,’ she admitted. ‘Now all I really crave is a good bowel movement.

Chief Inspector Gamache’s says there are ’four sentences that lead to wisdom: I don’t know. I need help. I’m sorry. I was wrong.

Though dour and childless himself, the grocer was unfailingly kind and patient with children. As though instead of having none, he had them all.

Holy horrible taste, Batman.

November was the transition month. A sort of purgatory. It was the cold damp breath between dying and death. Between fall and the dead of winter.

Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner.

The Chief believed if you sift through evil, at the very bottom you’ll find good. He believed that evil has its limits. Beauvoir didn’t. He believed that if you sift through good, you’ll find evil. Without borders, without brakes, without limit.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I’m writing is exactly that.