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

by Louise Penny

no good ever came from putting up walls. What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity. And few things thrived in captivity.

Teachers and parents think those classrooms and hallways are filled with students but they’re not. They’re filled with feelings. Bumping into each other. Hurting each other.

They shook hands. Bob’s seemed sticky. Bob seemed sticky.

first we have to find ourselves. Somewhere along the way we got lost. Ended up wandering around in a confusion of drugs and alcohol. Getting further and further away from who we really are.”

losing himself in the archaic but beautiful language of this book that so gently described the descent into hell and the long climb back out.