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The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10) QUOTES

The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10) QUOTES

1 " That was why she was happy. He now knew that happiness ad kindness went together. There was not one without the other. For Jean-Guy it was a struggle. For Annie it seemed natural. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

2 " Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

3 " Her voice was flat, in a way Myrna recognized from years of listening to people trying to rein in their emotions. To squash them down, flatten, them, and with them their words and their voices. Desperately trying to make the horrific sound mundane. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

4 " I’ll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

5 " Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.” “And between the two is the lump in the throat, "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

6 " After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she’d looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn’t joking. He was warning her. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

7 " You too?" She asked Ruth. "How do your poems start out?"

"They start as a lump in the throat," she said. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

8 " Turmoil shook loose all sorts of unpleasant truths. But it took peace to examine them. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

9 " [Being jealous] is like drinking acid, and expecting the other person to die. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

10 " If love was compass enough, said Armand quietly, there would be no missing children. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

11 " Clara didn't carry a grudge. They were too heavy and she had too far to go. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

12 " What’s the use of healing, if the life that’s saved is callow and selfish and ruled by fear? There’s a difference between being in sanctuary and being in hiding. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

13 " Not everyone’s an explorer, and not every explorer makes it back alive. That’s why it takes so much courage. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

14 " Most people want to be led. But suppose they choose the wrong leader? They end up with the Donner party. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

15 " Annie laughed. She had a face, a body, made not for a Paris runway but for good meals and books by the fire and laughter. She was constructed from, and for, happiness. But it had taken Annie Gamache a long while to find it. To trust it. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

16 " There is a balm in Gilead,” she read from the back, “to make the wounded whole—” “There’s power enough in Heaven / To cure a sin-sick soul. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

17 " I’ll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country,” Clara said. “I will pray you find a way to be useful,” Gamache completed the quote. Reine-Marie dropped her eyes to her hands and saw the paper napkin twisted and shredded there. Clara nodded slowly. “I think you might be right. Peter went to Paris not to find a new artistic voice. It was simpler than that. He wanted to find a way to be useful. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

18 " This was the great benefit of seeing worse. Fewer things worried him now. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

19 " Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

20 " How do your poems start out?” “They start as a lump in the throat,” she said. “Isn’t that normally just a cocktail olive lodged there?” Olivier asked. “Once,” Ruth admitted. “Wrote quite a good poem before I coughed it up. "

― Louise Penny , The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)