A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12)

by Louise Penny

Anyone could be clever. Anyone could be smart. Anyone could be taught. But not everyone was kind.

It is the chiefest point of happiness, she scribbled quickly, before the Commander could see, that a man is willing to be what he is.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

Don’t believe everything you think.

“Give bad news swiftly, and spread out the good news. Machiavelli.”

Until they realized that the sacrilege wasn’t eating and talking and laughing in the chapel. It was leaving it empty.

the world is a cruel place, but it’s also filled with more goodness than we ever realized.

This was the worst ghost story yet. The phantom life that might have been.

“May you be a brave man in a brave country, Honoré.”

“No man is as bad as the worst thing he’s done.”

No one is as good as the best thing.”

We all have, she knew, a place where we’re not only most comfortable, but most competent.

Henri kept everything important in his heart. He mostly kept cookies in his head.