566 Quotes by Louise Penny

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so’s a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

The morning after their deaths, Armand had gone into their room. The scent of them, the sense of them, almost too much to bear. The clothing. The book. The bookmark. The bedside clock, still ticking. He’d thought that strange. Surely it should have stopped.

Be careful. You’re making hurting a habit. Spreading it around won’t lessen your pain, you know. Just the opposite.

Despite himself, Beauvoir laughed. “There is strong shadow where there is much light.

There is always a road back. If we have the courage to look for it, and take it.

It smelled of the past, of a time before computers, before information was “Googled” and “blogged.” Before laptops and BlackBerries and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge.

After all, it’s how the light gets in.

He was tired of the tyranny of the greater good.

Having a friend, Chief Inspector. All you need is one. Makes all the difference.