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All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16) QUOTES

All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16) QUOTES

1 " You were going to say the Death Star, weren’t you?”

“Well, yes. If you can quote poetry, I can reference Star Wars. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

2 " I just sit where I'm put, composed
of stone and wishful thinking:
That the deity that kills for pleasure will also
heal,
That in the midst of your nightmare,
the final one, a kind lion will pick your soul
up gently
by the nape of the neck,
And caress you into darkness and paradise.

~ Ruth Zardo, poet and character in All The Devils Are Here "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

3 " Life can be cruel, as you know. But it can also be kind. Filled with wonders. You need to remember that. You have your own choice to make, Armand. What’re you going to focus on? What’s unfair, or all the wonderful things that happen? Both are true, both are real. Both need to be accepted. But which carries more weight with you?” Stephen tapped the boy’s chest. “The terrible or the wonderful? The goodness or the cruelty? Your life will be decided by that choice. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

4 " Hell is the truth seen too late, "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

5 " history wasn’t just written by the victors. First it had to be erased and rewritten. Replacing troublesome truth with self-serving myth. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

6 " Hell is the truth seen too late,” said Reine-Marie as she poured out more coffee. “Thomas Hobbes. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

7 " Patience. Patience. With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

8 " Dreadful deeds were obvious. The divine was often harder to see. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

9 " C. S. Lewis wrote that we can create situations in which we are happy, but we cannot create joy. It just happens. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

10 " There was nothing right or good in dying for your country. A necessity, sometimes, yes. But always a tragedy. Not an aspiration. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

11 " But then, Armand Gamache thought, where else would you find darkness but right up against the light? What greater triumph for evil than to ruin a garden? "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

12 " Less a hunter than an explorer, Armand Gamache delved into what people thought, but mostly how they felt. Because that was where actions were conceived. Noble acts. And acts of the greatest cruelty. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

13 " Don’t believe everything you think. Chief Inspector Gamache wrote that on the board for the incoming cadets at the start of every year at the Sûreté academy, and it stayed there all year. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

14 " Each day they tracked down killers. Each day they put their own lives on the line. And in return they were scapegoated. Chained to the ground, food for politicians looking for reelection. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

15 " It would be natural for some to feel that pressure and choose speed over quality. And try to hide it when something goes wrong. Not because they’re bad people, but because they’re people. That way lies tragedy. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

16 " We just don’t know. The key is to keep going. Joy might be just around the corner. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

17 " it didn’t feel wrong. It felt wretched. Horrific. A nightmare. But sometimes “right” felt like that. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

18 " Armand stood up, still holding Stephen’s hand, and said, “It’s time. Let him go.” Then he sat back down, his legs weak. If this was the right thing to do, why did it feel so wrong? But no, it didn’t feel wrong. It felt wretched. Horrific. A nightmare. But sometimes “right” felt like that. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

19 " He’d paused at the entrance and was, once again, staring down at the mosaic in the floor. Jostled and shoved by impatient guests, Armand stood his ground and contemplated the ancient symbol of Paris before it was Paris. Jacques had quoted the Latin motto. Fluctuat nec mergitur. Beaten by the waves, but never sinks. For the first time, despite seeing it for decades, Armand realized the mosaic looked like a scene from The Tempest. Shakespeare’s play opened with a terrible storm, and a ship in peril. As a young man leaped from a sinking ship to almost certain death, he screamed, “Hell is empty, and all the devils are here. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)

20 " He knew in his heart that anything that offered such peace had great value. "

― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)