The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

by Louise Penny

The madness of crowds was a terrible thing to see. The madness of police with clubs and guns was even worse.

All shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of thing shall be well. It was a quote from one of Gamache’s favorite writers, the Christian mystic Julian of Norwich. Who’d offered hope in a time of great suffering.

The trick wasn’t necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage.

Long dead and buried in another town My mother isn’t finished with me yet.

What is essential is invisible to the eye. Knowledge, ideas, thoughts. Imagination. All invisible. All lived in libraries.