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61 " pain aux raisins escargot "
― Louise Penny , All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)
62 " here” was the garden of the Musée Rodin, in Paris, "
63 " They needed former Nazis in their own programs. How do you think the Americans got to the moon? "
64 " As a librarian and archivist herself, she knew that history wasn’t just written by the victors. First it had to be erased and rewritten. Replacing troublesome truth with self-serving myth. "
65 " did. The Burghers of Calais.” Armand raised his head and stared up into the eyes of Eustache. "
66 " The terrible or the wonderful? The goodness or the cruelty? Your life will be decided by that choice. "
67 " I just sit where I’m put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, He could, even now, from what felt like an impossible distance, see through the mullioned windows of the bistro to the thick forests, and the leaves that would already be changing. As everything eventually did. "
68 " 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, Home. Home. He wanted to go home. And sit by the fire. And listen to their friends talking and laughing. To hold Reine-Marie’s hand and watch their grandchildren play. And caress you into darkness and paradise. "
69 " Cézanne. Riopelle and Lemieux. Kenojuak Ashevak. "
70 " 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? . . . The terrible or the wonderful? The goodness or the cruelty? Your life will be decided by that choice. "
71 " 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. At first the students in the class he taught laughed. It sounded clever but silly. Little by little most got it. And those who didn’t did not progress further. That phrase was as powerful as any weapon they’d be handed. "
72 " He’d seen Gamache go into homes, warehouses, forests where they knew heavily "
73 " wrote that we can create situations in which we are happy, but we cannot create joy. It just happens. "
74 " With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power.” The words "
75 " Terrible things were discussed by confident people in public places. "
76 " choosing her words carefully now. “It’s one thing "