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41 " What a wonderful epitaph, thought Gamache. He cared for himself. "
― Louise Penny , The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #5)
42 " So that the boy grew an outer hull to withstand assault. But while those skins saved tender young souls, Gamache knew, they soon stopped protecting and became the problem. Because while the hard outer shell kept the hurt at bay, it also kept out the light. And inside the frightened little soul became something else entirely, nurtured only in darkness. "
43 " The place didn’t even have crime. Except murder. The only criminal thing that ever happened in this village was the worst possible crime. "
44 " If the first victim of war was the truth, some of the first victims of a murder investigation were people’s lies. "
45 " De "
46 " grip. "
47 " In Beauvoir’s experience Darwin was way wrong. The fittest didn’t survive. They were killed by the idiocy of their neighbors, who continued to bumble along oblivious. "
48 " me a wet boot again?” Gabri "
49 " Regret for things said, for things done, and not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be. "
50 " Three short words, but potent. They more than anything had launched a thousand ships, a thousand attacks. One of us. A circle drawn. And closed. A boundary marked. Those inside and those not. "
51 " He was like Pinocchio. A man made of wood, mimicking humanity. Shiny and smiling and fake. And if you cut into him you’d see rings. Circles of deceit and scheming and justification. It’s what he was made of. That hadn’t changed. "
52 " He’d once heard a judge say the most humane way to execute a prisoner was to tell him he was free. Then kill him. Gamache had struggled against that, argued against it, railed against it. Then finally, exhausted, had come to believe it. "
53 " it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. "
54 " The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marvelled, not for the first time, at the perfection of nature where leaves were most beautiful at the very end of their lives. "
55 " Charles stirred "
56 " the new notebooks. Always strangely thrilling. Unmarred. No mistakes yet. All they held was promise and potential. "
57 " El pasado siempre acaba encontrándote. Y por eso, Gamache lo sabía muy bien, era fundamental ser consciente de las acciones del presente. Porque el presente se convierte en el pasado, y el pasado va creciendo. Y se alza, y te sigue. Y te encuentra. "
58 " Sûreté could send you but apparently it’s not normal for suspects to order up a specific officer.” He hugged the Chief Inspector then turned to the roomful "
59 " He’s a saint.” Beauvoir laughed, but seeing Gamache’s serious face he stopped. “What do you mean?” “There’re some people who believe that.” “Seemed like an asshole to me.” “The hardest part of the process. Telling them apart. "
60 " This man had a huge and terrible conscience riding herd on a huge and terrible greed. "