566 Quotes by Louise Penny

Loss was like that, Gamache knew. You didn’t just lose a loved one. You lost your heart, your memories, your laughter, your brain and it even took your bones. Eventually it all came back, but different. Rearranged.

Things sometimes fell apart unexpectedly. It was not necessarily a reflection of how much they were valued.

At this discovery Matthew Croft’s legs gave way and he sank to the cold concrete floor, to a place no rhyming verse existed. He had finally been hurt beyond poetry.

And I would never, ever mock the power of love. But it can also distort. Slip over into desperation and delusion.

He knew in his heart that anything that offered such peace had great value.

Olivier looked at him blankly. But the Chief Inspector had seen that look before. It was, in fact, almost impossible to look blank. Unless the person wanted to. A blank face to the Chief Inspector meant a frantic mind.

Their lives could not be defined by their deaths. They belonged not in perpetual pain but in the beauty of their short lives.

His theory is that life is loss,’ said Myrna after a moment. ‘Loss of parents, loss of loves, loss of jobs. So we have to find a higher meaning in our lives than these things and people. Otherwise we’ll lose ourselves.

Most people want to be led. But suppose they choose the wrong leader? They end up with the Donner party.