Louise Penny
Louise Penny
Louise Pennyis a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Penny's first career was as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. After she turned to writing, she won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha Award for best mystery novel of the year five times, including four consecutive years, and the Anthony Award for best novel of the...
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looks hours happy-hour
Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.
life growing world
Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.
ideas giving silence
But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.
pain being-hurt faults
When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.
life real distance
After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.
powerful simple people
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 when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make
battle talent seems
I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.
giving would-be world
He tried to let her know it would be all right. Eventually. Life wouldn't always be this painful. The world wouldn't always be this brutal. Give it time, little one. Give it another chance. Come back.
offending voice people
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. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.
fighting people tragedy
Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.
mistake conscience
Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.
creativity sloth looks
It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.
children honest wanted
To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.
be-kind kind
How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.