A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2)

by Louise Penny

We become our beliefs, and Crie believes something horrible about herself. Has heard it all her life, and now it haunts her, in her own mother’s voice. It’s the voice most of us hear in the quiet moments, whispering kindnesses or accusations. Our mother.’

‘Well, all children are sad,’ quoted Gamache, ‘but some get over it.’