Quotes About Louise Penny

I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.

No, I'm fine. And yes, I mean that sort of FINE," said Reine-Marie, making reference to the title of one of Ruth's poetry books, where FINE stood for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Egotistical.

Nature, she knew, abhorred a vacuum, and these people, faced with an information vacuum, had filled it with their fears.

And she knew that that was why drugs were so dangerous. Because they blew the mind. Not the heart. But the mind. And the heart followed. And the soul followed that.

Dear God, thought Gamache, save me from a huffy priest.

What was it Oscar Wilde said?" "I can resist everything except temptation.

Holy horrible taste, Batman

Her notebook, on the table, contained neither rhymes nor reason but held, between the worn pages, the lump in the throat.

I spent a lot of the evening watching Professor Robinson, and you want to know what I saw? I saw the fox.

He wants to meet to discuss Abigail's findings. You might have to enforce a whole new law.

So Finney typical of Charles, to do such damage.

You were going to say the Death Star, weren't you?" "Well, yes. If you can quote poetry, I can reference Star Wars.

I'm Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec." "Voyons," he heard a loud whisper, "I told you it was him." A scattering of "Holy shit" was also heard.

than men, that's all I figured it was.' 'How'd you

Truth?" Gilbert's tone was amused. "No real scientist talks about the truth.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table,' Jane said almost under her breath. 'Auden,' she explained, nodding to the book in Gabri's hand and flashing a smile that broke the unexpected, and unexplained, tension.

You've never had teenagers," said Gamache. "It's Like living with a ferret." I'll interview them," said Beauvoir. "I have a way with kids. "Since When?" asked Isabelle. "Since I was issued a gun." replied Beauvoir.

Gamache sighed to himself. Of all the literally divine music here, he had to have "Camptown Races" sung by a rooster stuck in his head.

Pierre Patenaude's small world, where wretched actions could be justified, and others blamed.

you said that Hell is empty and all the devils are here. What did you mean?

Ruth's FINE? Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Egotistical?

The Chief Inspector wondered whether a coat of paint and new appliances could exorcise demons, and whether the Catholic Church knew about that.

She was punished for many things, including being happy. So I wanted to capture that. The power of it. Happiness as an act of defiance. A revolutionary act.

Gamache asked, sipping his cold cucumber and raspberry soup. There was a bit of dill in it, a hint of lemon and something sweet.