566 Quotes by Louise Penny

But sometimes that comfort was an illusion. Masquerading as protecting, while actually imprisoning.

The world turned upside down,′ Beauvoir continued. ‘It was at once more beautiful and more frightening than you’d been led to believe. And suddenly you didn’t know what to do. Who to trust. Where to turn. It’s terrifying. Being lost is so much worse than being on the wrong road. That’s why people stay on it for so long.

He often said that words told them what someone was thinking, but the tone told them how they felt.

Once again the fate of reckless youth was being decided by old men behind closed doors.

And she knew that that was why drugs were so dangerous. Because they blew the mind. Not the heart. But the mind. And the heart followed. And the soul followed that.

We’re used to the film versions of psychopaths. The clearly crazies. But most psychopaths are clever. They have to be. They know how to mimic human behavior. How to pretend to care, while not actually feeling anything except perhaps rage and an overwhelming and near-perpetual sense of entitlement. That they’ve been wronged. They get what they want mostly through manipulation.

Anyone so damaged as to cause this much harm led a life full of secrets and full of enemies.

Recruiters, for terrorist cells and police forces and armies, relied on this simple truth: if you got people young enough, they could be made to do just about anything.

He read the familiar first lines of the book and felt the calm come over him, like a comforter.