Quotes About Experience

An intense response to a work will have its roots in the capacities and experiences already present in the personality and mind of the reader.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

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.

Living our lives was like living in a long house. We entered as babies at one end, and we exited when our time came. And in between we moved through this one, great, long room. Everyone we ever met, and every thought and action lived in that room with us. Until we made peace with the less agreeable parts of our past they'd continue to heckle us from way down the long house. And sometimes the really loud, obnoxious ones told us what to do, directing our actions even years later.

Like a first love, the place where peace is first found is never, ever forgotten.

Do you know what I've learned, after three decades of death?" Gamache asked, leaning toward the agent and lowering his voice. Despite himself, the agent leaned forward. "I've learned how precious life is.

The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.

Maybe that's what old men are for. To make decisions that no young man can." He was watching Gamache closely. "Or should have to.

You weren't lost. You were exploring. There's a difference.

Quote from Louise Penny a Canadian author. Wrote "How The Light Gets In" from an interview. "Having started as a voracious reader (and I still am), I know that reading is as creative as writing. The writer suggests, creates a character, a setting, an atmosphere. But it's the reader who brings it alive. Walks with the characters, sees the world, smells the wood smoke, tastes the café au lait and feels the biting cold on the tender cheek

C. S. Lewis wrote that we can create situations in which we are happy, but we cannot create joy. It just happens.

All children are sad, but some get over it.

Armand Gamache had seen the worst. But he'd also seen the best. Often in the same person.

And this was what a couple of that age looked like. If they were lucky.

She'd never actually smiled at a family reunion before. It felt odd.

Irene Finney, like many very elderly people, knew that the world was indeed flat. It had a beginning and an end. And she had come to the edge.

The trial is about facts, but feelings are also a fact.

That we could forget the good and only remember the

The Chancellor studied the man in front of her. She'd known him for decades. Seen his rise through the ranks. Seen his great fall. And seen him put himself together again and go back to doing a job that was far more than a job for him. It was written on his face.

experience, was something that needed to be removed. It was a chore that fell from the sky.

Living our lives was like living in a long house. We entered as babies at one end, and we exited when our time came. And in between we moved through this one, great, long room. Everyone we ever met, and every thought and action lived in that room with us. Until we made peace with the less agreeable parts of our past they'd continue to heckle us from way down the long house. And sometimes the really loud, obnoxious ones told us what to do, directing our actions even years later. Gamache

he wondered whether it was always the young who were brave. And the old grew fearful and cowardly. Was

Phones were held high, recording the event. To be shown later to friends and relatives who hoped the dinner was delicious enough to warrant having to watch.