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81 " Knowledge, ideas, thoughts. Imagination. All invisible. All lived in libraries. "
― Louise Penny , The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)
82 " Anything could happen to anyone, at any moment. What made a place safe were the people. The caring. The kindness. The helping. Sometimes the mourning. And often the forgiveness. "
83 " But he’d never forgotten. That moment. When he’d met kindness for the first time. And been shown the path to wisdom in four simple, though not easy, sentences. "
84 " Came a time when people of conscience had to take a stand. "
85 " It smells like someone put Oka cheese in a sweaty sock, wrapped it in an old banana peel, then sat on it,” she said. “For ten years. "
86 " Armand nodded. “She fell far from the tree. "
87 " She coughed, and Reine-Marie stopped where she was. And had to remind herself that a cough was no longer a threat. A sneeze wasn’t an attack. The vaccine had worked. It was one of the great global shared experiences. The plague and the cure. But still, she had to force herself forward, to stand beside the young woman with the sniffles. "
88 " knew the terror of that first step. He also knew that the key to a full life was taking it. The trick wasn’t necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage. "
89 " All shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of thing shall be well. It was a quote from one of Gamache’s favorite writers, the Christian mystic Julian of Norwich. "
90 " Your statistics might be right—” “They are.” “—but your conclusions are wrong. "
91 " Your vast well of ignorance is finally paying off. "
92 " The goal of any healthy society was to keep people safe to express sometimes unpopular views. But there was a limit to that expression, a line. "
93 " And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Armand wondered if Florence understood that line from The "
94 " When were these seeds of anger sown / And on what ground. "
95 " crevices. There was a noise in his "
96 " Isabelle, "
97 " heart. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. "
98 " Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. It was first published in 1841 by Charles Mackay. "
99 " Henry David Thoreau. The question is not what you look at, but what you see. "
100 " When Thoreau was arrested for protesting an injustice, Ralph Waldo Emerson had visited him in prison and said, “Henry, what are you doing in there?” And Thoreau had replied, “Ralph, what are you doing out there? "