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“Things are strongest where they’re broken,” said Commander Gamache

It took a long time, and a lot of help. Jacques, the world is a cruel place, but it’s also filled with more goodness than we ever realized. And you know what? Kindness beats cruelty. In the long run. It really does. Believe me.”

,” this time he didn’t touch it, “it reminds me of the pain. Mine. But mostly theirs. But it also reminds me, every day, of the healing. Of the kindness that exists. We are introduced to Goodness every day. Even in drawing-rooms among a crowd of faults. It’s so easy to get mired in the all too obvious cruelty of the world. It’s natural. But to really heal, we need to recognize the goodness too.”

“Rumors are hard to prove, but they’re even harder to disprove. We both know that character assassination is easy. All it takes is a suggestion. A well-placed word in someone’s ear.”

“Even the word is interesting. Map. It comes from mappa mundi. Mappa is Latin for napkin. Mundi is world, of course. Isn’t that wonderful? A napkin, with their world on it. The mundane and the magnificent. Map.”

“This pain you feel . . . you might believe that you will never recover. And while it might always hurt, the pain will fade a little more each time—until one day, there will be no more tears. Just the memories and the hope, that you might find some joy in them again.”

“I had slain monsters, fought vicious enemies, been stabbed and speared and burned—yet the torments of the heart were no less excruciating. Perhaps those who brought us greatest joy, also wielded the power to inflict the most suffering. I did not know how long I wept, until at last my breathing calmed and I lay still.”

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Clean and sweet romance that I am obsessed with 😫

I want to reread this over and over. Action filled but so much depth.

I love the pining gazes, desire, and longing 😮‍💨

Today, I had finally dared to gaze at the sun, allowing its radiance to blaze through me unhindered, spilling through my veins until I was aglow. Never did I imagine such luminous joy existed, and never again would I be content to remain in the shadows.

You are impatient, rash, passionate in your endeavors. You, more than anyone, need to learn how to untether your mind from your feelings. Steady your thoughts and observe, before you plunge ahead. When emotions cloud us, disaster soon follows.”

“You’ll never grow if you only do what you’re good at,” she had said. “The most difficult things are often the most worthwhile.”

“She would do a portrait of the person who had hurt her once, beyond repair. With one bold stroke after another she painted. Capturing the rage, the sorrow, the doubt, the fear, the guilt, the joy, the love, and finally, the forgiveness. It would be her most intimate, most difficult painting yet. It would be…

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“This isn’t our parents’ generation, Armand. Now people have many chapters to their lives. When I stopped being a therapist I asked myself one question. What do I really want to do? Not for my friends, not for my family. Not for perfect strangers. But for me. Finally. It was my turn, my time.”
😭Louise Penny always creates a circle of warmth even with this being a psychological suspense

“Gamache and Henri left the bookstore and walked around the village green, feeling the fresh, cool autumn air on their faces. Breathing in the scent of overripe apples and fresh-cut grass, their feet shuffling through newly fallen leaves.”

Louise Penny always transports me with her atmospheric prose. The sensory detail is spot on!

“It had come from having a father who shoved me toward the chomping blades of the Shear, instead of pulling me away from them. It had come from those moments on the floor, from knowing that Mother was in the next room, closing her eyes and ears to me, and choosing, for that moment, not to be my mother at all.”

“I know only this: that when my mother told me she had not been the mother to me that she wished she had been, she became that mother for the first time.”

“I hadn’t known I needed to hear, but once I saw them, I realized I’d been searching my whole life for them. You were my child. I should have protected you.”

“There’s a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion. In that vast space you can sail unaccompanied for hours, afloat on pine and brush and rock. It’s a tranquillity born of sheer immensity; it calms with its very magnitude, which renders the merely human of no consequence. Gene was formed by this alpine hypnosis, this hushing of human drama

Aaah! I wish it’s Autumn 🍂 weather here in TX. This is a perfect read for the Fall season. I miss the east coast 🥺.

“Her aunt had warned her long ago that some people brought misery with them like weather,”

-So true. Once I distanced myself from toxic people and placed boundaries my life has been peaceful. Of course, it’s not without challenges but overall toxic culture is not allowed to freely seep into my family’s life.

“Then I remind myself that my broken heart also means that there was a time when it wasn’t broken, when my heart was light and full. Loving Audrey and my kids brought joy and meaning to my life, and I wouldn’t have traded that love for anything else in the world.”