145 quotes found
Author · Canadian · 1958
Canadian author (born 1958)
“As the boys screamed and hauled off handfuls of mulch, Olivier had slowly, deliberately, gently taken Gabri’s hand and held it before gracefully lifting it to his lips. The boys had watched, moment...”
“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...”
“I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong.”
“But you knew what would happen. Why would you choose to walk right into a situation where you know the person is going to be hurtful? It kills me to see you do that, and you do it all the time. It'...”
“Homes, Gamache knew, were a self portrait. A person's choice of color, furnishing, pictures, every touch revealed the individual. God, or the devil, was in the details. And so was the human. Was it...”
“Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived.”
“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 ...”
“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...”
“Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.”
“I saw a lot of men die there. Most men. Do you know what killed them?”…”Despair,” said Finney. “They believed themselves to be prisoners. I lived with those men, ate the same maggot-infested food, ...”
“The bistro was his secret weapon in tracking down murderers. Not just in Three Pines, but in every town and village in Quebec. First he found a comfortable café or brasserie, or bistro, then he fou...”
“Rules meant order. Without them they’d be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.”
“A murder was never about brawn, it began and ended in the brain and the brain could justify anything.”
“…believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn’t.”
“…the most devastating thing Finney could have said. Not that Peter was hated by his father. But that he’d been loved all along. He’d interpreted kindness as cruelty, generosity as meanness, support...”
“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...”
“Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.”
“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.”
“Do you know the sums that I do?” “I count my blessings.”
