Louise Penny Quotes

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• The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

  Louise Penny

  Sorry, Four, Needs

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• Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make

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  Powerful, Simple, People

  Louise Penny (2008). “Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.76, Macmillan

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• Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

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  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.495, Macmillan

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• Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

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  Jobs, Heart

  Louise Penny (2014). “The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.277, Macmillan

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• No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

  Louise Penny

  Wall, Mistake, People

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• Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

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  Looks, Happy Hour, Looking Good

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.175, Macmillan

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• Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

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  Life, World, Growing

  Louise Penny (2008). “Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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• How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

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  Be Kind, Kind

  Louise Penny (2013). “How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.16, Macmillan

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• The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first time, at the perfection of nature where leaves were most beautiful at the very end of their lives.

  Louise Penny

  Beautiful, Feet, Perfection

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.525, Macmillan

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• Things are strongest where they're broken.

  Louise Penny

  Broken, Strongest

  Louise Penny (2011). “Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.325, Macmillan

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• Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.

  Louise Penny

  Hero, World, Rooms

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• After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.

  Louise Penny

  Life, Distance, Father

  Louise Penny (2014). “The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.22, Macmillan

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• I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

  Louise Penny

  Beautiful, Pain, Tired

  Louise Penny (2007). “A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.186, Macmillan

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• To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.

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  Offending, Voice, People

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• What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured a loneliness I never knew I had. It gave me joy. And freedom. I think that was the most amazing part. I suddenly felt both embraced and freed at the same time.

  Louise Penny

  Falling In Love, Loneliness, Thinking

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.450, Macmillan

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• But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

  Louise Penny

  Ideas, Giving, Silence

  Louise Penny (2009). “A Rule Against Murder: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.71, Macmillan

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• It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

  Louise Penny

  Creativity, Sloth, Looks

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.180, Macmillan

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• What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought he had the answer. Regret. Regret for things said, things done, and things not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.

  Louise Penny

  Regret, People, Done

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• Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.

  Louise Penny

  Mistake, Conscience

  Louise Penny (2007). “A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.281, Macmillan

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• When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

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  Pain, Being Hurt, Faults

  Louise Penny (2007). “A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.189, Macmillan

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• We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?

  Louise Penny

  Blessed, Everyday, Doe

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• Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

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  Struggle, Reality, Wish

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.534, Macmillan

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• But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.

  Louise Penny

  Running, Comfort, Firsts

  Louise Penny (2013). “How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.118, Macmillan

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• Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

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  People, Stupidity, Greed

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• I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

  Louise Penny

  Hate, Loneliness, Writing

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