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“and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge”
“Not everything buried is actually dead. For many, the past is alive.”
“He had his treasure, but finally all he wanted was his family. And peace.”
“Joy doesn't ever leave, you know. It's always with you. And one day you'll find it again.”
“while men and women perished, and cities fell, symbols endured, grew. Symbols were immortal.”
“Shed forgotten to love, but she also forgot to hate. (about Claras mother, who had dementia)”
“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...”
“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...”
“That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad.”
“struck. Once. And into that blow he put his childhood, his grief, his loss. He put his mothers sorrow and his sisters longing. The menorah, weighed down with that, crushed the Hermits skull.”
“in the librarysurrounded by things far more dangerous than what roamed the school corridors. For here thoughts were housed.”
“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. Every...”
“And Beauvoir knew then the man was a saint. He's been touched by any number of medical men and women. All healers, all well intentioned, some kind, some rough. All made it clear they wanted him to ...”
“Gamache nodded. It was what made his job so fascinating, and so difficult. How the same person could be both kind and cruel, compassionate and wretched. Unraveling a murder was more about getting t...”
“Wait, Armand, he heard behind him but kept walking, ignoring the calls. Then he remembered what Emile had meant to him and still did. Did this one bad thing wipe everything else out?That was the da...”
“A murder was never about brawn, it began and ended in the brain and the brain could justify anything.”
“I respect people who have such passion. Emile was saying. "I don't. I have a lot of interests, some I'm passionate about, but not to the exclusion of everything else. I sometimes wonder if that's n...”
“Conscience. Imagine being pursued by your own conscience.A mountain of conscience. Throwing a lengthening shadow. Growing. Darkening.”
“Shakespeare: the best way to peace is to have a still and quiet conscience. Or none at all, thought Gamache.”
“In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.”
