145 quotes found
Author · Canadian · 1958
Canadian author (born 1958)
“Jesus, is Gamache hiring fetuses now?”
“Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.”
“Do you know the sums that I do? I count my blessings.”
“Do you know the sums that I do?” “I count my blessings.”
“Eventually he'd let the answering machine take over and had hidden in his studio. Where he's hidden all his life. From the monster. He could feel itin their bedroom now. He could feel its tail swis...”
“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”
“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of the stories as real, and some as fiction. But she honor...”
“Normally death came at night, taking a person in their sleep, stopping their heart or tickling them awake, leading them to the bathroom with a splitting headache before pouncing and flooding their ...”
“Three Pines wasnt on any tourist map, being too far off any main or even secondary road. Like Narnia, it was generally found unexpectedly and with a degree of surprise that such an elderly village ...”
“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.”
“He had his treasure, but finally all he wanted was his family. And peace.”
“Bang. Youre dead.Gamache swung around, but had recognised the voice an instant after hed begun to turn.Youre a sneak, Jean Guy. Im going to have to put a cow bell on you.Not again. It wasnt often h...”
“You know for sure Jane would be annoyed she gave you all her money and youre not even enjoying it. Should have given it to me. Myrna had shaken her head in mock bewilderment. Id have known what to ...”
“She put her hands together and Saul hoped she wasnt about to sayNamaste, said CC, bowing. He taught me that. Very spiritual.She said spiritual so often it had become meaningless to Saul.He said, CC...”
“Why did he kill his own mother? Ruth asked.The oldest story in the book, said Gamache.Ben was a male prostitute? Gabri exclaimed.Thats the oldest profession. Where do you keep your head? asked Ruth...”
“Nice hair. Olivier turned to Clara, hoping to break the tension.Thank you. Clara ran her hands through it, making it stand on end as though shed just had a scare.Youre right. Olivier turned to Myrn...”
“She strong-armed the swinging door and walked through. Straight into an acid flashback.Claras first reaction was to laugh. She stood stunned for a moment then started to laugh. And laugh. And laugh...”
“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.”
“Who hurt you, once, so far beyond repairthat you would meet each overturewith curling lip?While we, who knew you well, your friends, (the focus of your scorn)could see your courage in the face of f...”
“and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge”
“Joy doesn't ever leave, you know. It's always with you. And one day you'll find it again.”
“Clara shrugged and immediately knew her betrayal of Peter. In one easy movement she'd distanced herself from his bad behavior, even thought she herself was responsible for it. Just before everyone ...”
“All Armands life Honor had lived in light. Unchallenged.Armand put out his hand, and touched the door. The last room, the last door [in the longhouse]. The last territory to explore didn't hold mon...”
“A lot of what we know to be history isntit serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public op...”
