Louise Penny (1st July, 1958) is a Canadian author who writes in the mystery genre, who writes about francophone Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Born in Toronto, Penny’s mother was a massive reader and held a particular writing for crime fiction, which meant Louise grew up reading authors such as Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Michael Innes.
To date Louise Penny has written sixteen novels, with two already adapted for movie. Today we are looking at some of these books through our favourite quotes. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did!
“Light is every bit as challenging as dark. We can discover a great deal about ourselves by looking at beauty.”
“Just because it’s the truth doesn’t make it less insulting.”
“But they both knew that words were weapons too, and when fashioned into a story their power was almost limitless.”
“There is always a road back. If we have the courage to look for it, and take it. I’m sorry. I was wrong. I don’t know. I need help. These are the signposts. The cardinal directions.”
“It is sweet and right to die for your country…. an old and dangerous lie. It might be necessary, but it is never sweet and rarely right. It’s a tragedy.”
“We see it when bullies are in charge. It becomes part of the culture of an institution, a family, an ethnic group, a country. It becomes not just acceptable, but expected. Applauded even.”
“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 different. Rearranged.”
“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 honored them all, though she didn’t buy every one.”
“Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.” “And between the two is the lump in the throat,”
“Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.”
~ in Interview
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