He would open one of the historical biographies waiting patiently on his bookcase, several of which had bookmarks just a few pages in, the subjects yet to get beyond their childhood.
“He took her in his arms and kissed her, feeling her soft body beneath his coat. They'd both swelled since they'd first met. There was no way either would get into their wedding clothes. But they'd grown in other ways as well, and Gamache figured it was a good deal. If life meant growth in all directions, it was fine with him.”
― A Fatal Grace
― A Fatal Grace
“if there was one thing she found more tedious than thinking about politics it was talking about politics.”
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“The Fringes are the place of the slack-willed, slack-jawed and slack-hued," remarked Floyd Pinken, who could comfortably boast all three of those attributes, if truth be known.”
― Shades of Grey
― Shades of Grey
“I know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch. That lasted a while,’ she admitted. ‘Now all I really crave is a good bowel movement.”
― A Fatal Grace
― A Fatal Grace
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