“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 ...”

“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...”

“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...”

“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...”

“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 ...”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“We prefer to imagine brutal wars and atrocities as events that "just happen" every now and then, much like tornadoes or lightning strikes; this metaphor suggests that we can't generalize from them,...”

“The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvag...”

“Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?”