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Quotes About Friendship

Next morning Jean-Guy Beauvoir was waiting by the car with two travel mugs of café au lait from the bistro and two chocolatines. "Just because we're going to Mordor doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves on the way," he said, opening the passenger-side door for Armand.
~ Louise Penny
If ever two men were made for cahoots, it was these two. They were cahootites.
~ Louise Penny
Having a friend, Chief Inspector. All you need is one. Makes all the difference.
~ Louise Penny
Ruth lost her footing. Haniya grabbed her before she fell. She held Ruth's hand for the rest of the way, and wondered if maybe the key was not in being held, but in holding.
~ Louise Penny
I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.
~ Louise Penny
very rich indeed, rich in the things that matter. In friendships and laughter, in kindness and company.
~ Louise Penny
Being with Ken was like being with a permanently foreign friend. It was impossible to understand them, but all you really needed to do was reflect back their own expressions. When Ken looked sad, they looked sad. When he looked happy, they smiled. It was actually very relaxing to be around him. Not much was expected.
~ Louise Penny
We have a solemn pact.' Kaye nodded to Mother and looked over at Em talking to some neighbors. 'If one of us is unconscious in the hospital, the others will make sure it's pulled.' 'The plug?' Ruth asked. 'The chin hair,' said Kaye, eyeing Ruth with some alarm. 'You're off the visitors list. Mother, make a note.
~ Louise Penny
You can tell a lot about a man by his friends, or lack of them.
~ Louise Penny
I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." "My favorite quote from Thoreau is also from Walden," said Gamache. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
~ Louise Penny
Gamache was the best of them, the smartest and bravest and strongest because he was willing to go into his own head alone, and open all the doors there, and enter all the dark rooms. And make friends with what he found there. And he went into the dark, hidden rooms in the minds of others. The minds of killers. And he faced down whatever monsters came at him. He went to places Beauvoir had never even dreamed existed.
~ Louise Penny
Clara tried to give the eulogy, but couldn't speak. Her words stuck at the lump in her throat. And so Myrna took over, holding her hand while Clara stood beside her.
~ Louise Penny
Friend of Bill was code. For a member of AA. Of which this Anton was clearly one. It was like finding a member of his tribe, unexpectedly. The two men stood in the warm kitchen, the sleet hitting the windows, and realized that while they knew nothing about each other, they actually knew each other better than almost anyone else on earth.
~ Louise Penny
Shalom aleichem.
~ Louise Penny
Myrna. "Not that I'm a prude, but the children…" "Oh for God's sake," said Myrna. "I didn't say that at all. Clara's making it up." "Of course, if we held it at night, after the kids were asleep," said Gabri. "Put torches
~ Louise Penny
Looking around he realised how much he liked this place and these people. Too bad one of them was a murderer.
~ Louise Penny
No place could ever be warmer than Three Pines.
~ Louise Penny
au lait. "We all
~ Louise Penny
They were cahootites.
~ Louise Penny
Beauvoir was so close to Frère Raymond
~ Louise Penny
This is what comes of trust and friendship, loyalty and love, thought Peter. You get screwed. Betrayed. You get wounded so deeply you ca barely breath and sometimes it kills you. Or worse. It kills the people you love most.
~ Louise Penny
They knew who was on their side. When did it get so difficult to tell? Gamache wondered.
~ Louise Penny
It's possible to have a leader you wouldn't choose as a friend. But you need to at least respect them.
~ Louise Penny
propped up between her friends, as she realized she'd been all her life. Why had it taken until now to understand that?
~ Louise Penny