Louise Penny quotes

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help. (Louise Penny)
When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain. View quote
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Things are strongest where they're broken. View quote
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Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. View quote
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Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience. View quote
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We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count? View quote
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What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise. View quote
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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. View quote
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The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first time, at the perfection of nature where leaves were most beautiful at the very end of their lives. View quote
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I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters. View quote
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But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas. (Louise Penny)
I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write. View quote
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A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. View quote
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A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel. View quote
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To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child. View quote
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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. View quote
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Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are. View quote
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Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive? View quote
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Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile..... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey. View quote
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Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success. View quote
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I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong. (Louise Penny)
It's a blessing Madame Gamache and I had at our wedding. It was read at the end of the ceremony.(Apache Blessing) View quote
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I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness. View quote
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They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves. View quote
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Your beliefs become your thoughts Your thoughts become your words Your words become your actions Your actions become your destiny. Mahatma Ghandi,” he said. "There's more, but I can't remember it all. View quote
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