Inna

“They [his in-laws] had even kidded that it should be easy for him [to find hidden chocolate Easter Eggs] since he was an investigator, after all. He thought the easiest way would be to simply to put his gun to his father-in law’s head and force him to say where the % eggs were.”
― Louise Penny, Chief Inspector Gamache #1-4

“Better to say nothing than say something just for the sake of speaking.”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

“He searched her face, his icy-blue eyes keen and cold. She knew she should hold him, should tell him how much she loved him and trusted him and needed him. But something held her back. There it was again. A silence between them. Something else unsaid. Is this how it starts? Clara wondered. Those chasms between couples, filled not with comfort and familiarity, but with too much unsaid, and too much said.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

“Long dead and buried in another town, my mother hasn’t finished with me yet.”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace