The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #10)

by Louise Penny

He now knew that happiness and kindness went together. There was not one without the other. For Jean-Guy it was a struggle.

“Any real act of creation is first an act of destruction. Picasso said it, and it’s true. We don’t build on the old, we tear it down. And start fresh.”

Peter was dismantling his life. Picking it apart. And replacing it with something new. Rebuilding.

In Beauvoir’s experience, the only thing worse for an artist than not being celebrated was if someone they knew was.