The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #5)

by Louise Penny

Many native tribes believed evil lived in corners, which was why their traditional homes were rounded. Unlike the square homes the government had given them.

Funny how imperfections on the outside mean something splendid beneath.”

He’d driven snowmobiles, power boats, motorcycles and ATVs. While appreciating their convenience, and necessity, he disliked them all. They shattered the calm with their banshee screams, polluting the wilderness with noise and fumes.

My dad always said a violin sings and a fiddle dances.”

I love this sentence. When you listen to the different types of music, you can tell how that statement is true.

“Most unhappiness comes from not being able to sit quietly in a room.” “Pascal,”

“It’s a Buddhist belief. One of the states of man from the Wheel of Life. The more you eat the hungrier you get. It’s considered the very worst of the lives. Trying to fill a hole that only gets deeper. Fill it with food or money or power. With the admiration of others.

The Hungry Ghost