“Don’t believe everything you think,” said Gamache, before releasing the hand and opening the door. “Pema Chödrön. A Buddhist nun.”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“It’s so easy to get mired in the all too obvious cruelty of the world. It’s natural. But to really heal, we need to recognize the goodness too.”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“Things are strongest where they’re broken,”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“Love and worry. They went hand in hand. Fellow travelers.”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“It was a careworn face. But most of the lines, if followed back like a trail, would lead to happiness. To the faces a face made when laughing or smiling, or sitting quietly enjoying the day.
Though some of those lines led elsewhere. Into a wilderness, into the wild. Where terrible things had happened. Some of the lines of his face led to events inhuman and abominable. To horrific sights. To unspeakable acts.
Some of them his.
The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“emotions were far from linear. They were circles and waves and dots and triangles. But they were rarely a straight line."
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― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“Marcus Aurelius. The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“When someone shoots at us, we return fire,” said Jean-Guy. Now Jacques did nod. “But it’s equally important that when someone is kind to us, we return that as well,”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“One must always have a song in the heart.” “And an éclair in the hand,”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“Anyone could be clever. Anyone could be smart. Anyone could be taught. But not everyone was kind."
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― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“It’s too easy to feed the anger. Too cowardly to stoke the hate. You must look inside yourself and decide who you are and who you want to be. Character is not created in times like these. It’s revealed. This is a trying time. A testing time. Be careful.”
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― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“Ruth believed in precycling. An evolution on recycling. She made use of things before people threw them out.”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“There is always a road back. If we have the courage to look for it, and take it. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I don't know. I need help. These are the signposts. The cardinal directions.”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“She suspected if they looked in Gamache’s bedside table, they’d find all sorts of lost souls he put there for safekeeping. And maybe a baguette.”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“Rumors are hard to prove, but they’re even harder to disprove. We both know that character assassination is easy. All it takes is a suggestion. A well-placed word in someone’s ear.”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“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.”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“Change the facts and you’ll change the feelings.”
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― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“Give bad news swiftly, and spread out the good news. Machiavelli.” Charpentier”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“A belief of convenience isn't much use, is it?”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“What happened when you gave in to temptation. When you listened to the fallen angels of your nature.”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“He would be the object lesson, the walking warning to the cadets. What happened when you gave in to temptation. When you listened to the fallen angels of your nature.”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“It was a post her former colleagues no doubt viewed as a significant step down. But Reine Marie wasn’t interested in steps. She’d arrived at where she wanted to be. No more steps."
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― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“When I’m afraid, I always ask myself, what’s the worst that can happen?”
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― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“It is the chiefest point of happiness, she scribbled quickly, before the Commander could see, that a man is willing to be what he is."
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― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
Louise Penny
Born place: in Toronto, Canada
Born date July 1, 1958
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“Three Questions What was it like to love him? asked Gratitude. It was like being exhumed, I answered. And brought to life in a flash of brilliance. What was it like to be loved in return? asked Joy. It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence. What was it like to lose him? asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded: It was like hearing every good-bye ever said to me—said all at once.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Lullabies
“I hurried away to the white hall of Phantasy heedless of the innumerable forms of beauty that crowded my way: these might cross my eyes, but the unseen filled my brain.”
― George MacDonald, quote from Phantastes
“Knowing it was her last night on the Arabella, Maia fought against sleep. She must remember it all--the lapping of the water against the side of the boat, the white moths, the fireflies…
Finn, too, was awake. “When we’re grown up I’ll come back for you, I promise. No one can stop us then.”
But she wasn’t grown up and nor was he, and Finn was going on alone. The professor had tried to persuade him to come back with them, but Finn only said, “I promised my father I’d go and find the Xanti. I promised.”
Now, though, lying in the dark, he realized how much he hated the idea of going on by himself. He wasn’t afraid exactly; he knew he could do it--but it suddenly seemed utterly dismal to go on without his friend.
“We could still run away into the forest,” said Maia.
But Finn said no. “Minty really cares about you. The professor told me she nearly went mad when she thought you’d been killed in the fire. You can’t play tricks on her--or on him. They’re good people. It’s just…oh, why can’t grown-ups understand that we might know what is right for us just as well as they do?”
― Eva Ibbotson, quote from Journey to the River Sea
“The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.”
― Sarah Dessen, quote from Saint Anything
“People no longer wanted right or left—they wanted middle-of-the-road.”
― Anna Funder, quote from Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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