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

61 " It was messy. Unruly. Risky. Scary. So much could go wrong. Failure was always close at hand. But so was brilliance. "

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

62 " Я сижу, где посажена, созданная из камня и желаемого, выданного за действительное. Будто божество, убивающее ради удовольствия, может и исцелять "

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

63 " - Пойми меня правильно, я верю в то, что голова - вещь полезная. Но не нужно проводить там слишком много времени. В голове обитает страх. А мужество живёт в сердце. Задача состоит в том, чтобы добраться из головы в сердце.
- А между сердцем и головой - комок в горле. "

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

64 " поинтересовался Гамаш у Мирны. — Вы когда-нибудь испытывали зависть? Гамаш задумался. Иногда его обходили по службе. В молодости он влюблялся и бывал отвергнут, а потом обнаруживал, что с предметом его воздыхания встречается приятель, и это больно ранило юное сердце Гамаша. Но чаще всего он чувствовал всепоглощающую губительную зависть, когда видел других мальчишек с родителями. Он ненавидел их за это. И да простит его Господь, он ненавидел своих родителей. За то, что их нет с ним. За то, что они оставили его. — Это все равно что выпить кислоту, — сказала Мирна, — и надеяться, что другой человек умрет. Гамаш кивнул. Не это ли чувствовал Питер, глядя на полотно Клары? Не тогда ли его впервые захлестнула зависть? Не завернулись ли его внутренности узлом, когда он увидел «Три грации»? Гамаш неплохо знал Питера Морроу и даже сейчас не сомневался, что тот всей душой любил Клару. И от этого, вероятно, все было только хуже. Любить женщину, но ненавидеть ее творения и бояться их. Питер "

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

65 " He still arrested them, of course. But he’d come to agree with Sister Prejean that no one was as bad as the worst thing they’d done. "

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

66 " seen the best. Often in the same person. "

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

67 " By offering a second chance. One last chance. Don’t get me wrong, I believe in using your head. But not in spending too much time in there. 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)

68 " Was the final fear that, in losing his fears, he would also lose his joy? "

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

69 " He wasn't addicted to pain, to panic, but he might be addicted to the bliss of having them stop.

The mind, he knew, really was its own place. "

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

70 " She shifted her seat and shoved the thought aside. 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. "

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

71 " A poem begins as a lump in the throat. A sense of wrong,” Gamache continued the quote. “A homesickness, a lovesickness. "

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

72 " Peter’s a lucky man,” he said. “Except in one respect. He doesn’t seem to know how lucky he is. "

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

73 " We love life, thought Reine-Marie as she watched Ruth and Rosa sitting side by side, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. "

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

74 " This’s the Admiral’s Suite? There must be a mistake,” said Chartrand, trying to turn around without getting engaged to either man. "

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

75 " Henri became distracted by a fluttering leaf, or a black fly, or the voices in his head. The dog would race after the ball, then stop and stare into thin air, moving his gigantic satellite ears this way and that. Honing in on some message. Not tense, but quizzical. It was, Gamache recognized, the way most people listened when they heard on the wind the wisps of a particularly beloved piece of music. Or a familiar voice from far away. "

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

76 " I said I was only going to recite them once, and he could do with them as he wished.” Armand Gamache lowered his fork to his plate and listened. “I don’t know. I was wrong. I’m sorry.” Lacoste recited them slowly, lifting a finger to count them off. “I need help,” the Chief said, completing the statements. "

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

77 " Highway 362 hugged the cliffs and followed the St. Lawrence. And just before the village of Les Éboulements, she pulled over. "

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

78 " Julie wasn’t as cheery, not as bright as before she’d joined them. They’d tarnished her. "

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

79 " As she got closer, Clara Morrow saw Gamache do it again. He took off his half-moon reading glasses, then "

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

80 " Muses work all day long,” said Ruth. “And then at night get together and dance. "

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