A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)

by Louise Penny

Madame and Monsieur Dyson were gone now. They’d crossed over to that continent where grieving parents lived. It looked the same as the rest of the world, but wasn’t. Colors bled pale. Music was just notes.

Books no longer transported or comforted, not fully. Never again. Food was nutrition, little more. Breaths were sighs. And they knew something the rest didn’t. They knew how lucky the rest of the world was.

Sobriety isn’t for cowards, Chief Inspector. Whatever you might

think of an alcoholic, to get sober, really sober demands great honesty, and that demands great courage. Stopping drinking’s the easy part. Then we have to face ourselves. Our demons. How many people are willing to do that?”

nine.” She gave the book back to Gamache. “She must’ve been reading that section of the book. It’s the step where we make amends