“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...”

“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.”

“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...”

“I just sit where I'm put, composedof stone and wishful thinking:that the deity who kills for pleasurewill also heal,that in the midst of your nightmare,the final one, a kind lionwill come with band...”

“Loss was like that, Gamache knew. You didn't just lose a loved one. You lost your heart, your memories, your laughter, your brain and it even took your bones. Eventually it all came back, but diffe...”

“They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.You?Great.Theyd trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”