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“In the history of the world, no censor has ever been looked back on with respect.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Water Room

“our imperative to protect life should override all regulations set in place by passing politicians. Everyone needs a place they can call home. It should be as fundamental a right as freedom of speech.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Water Room

“the day mankind learns to profit from the lessons of history I shall look for the Second Coming.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

“Evil is unspectacular and always human,”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

“I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

“One pretends nothing can be done; therefore, one can do nothing and feel perfectly justified. I think it is only another kind of dishonesty,”
― Anne Perry, Paragon Walk

“There are certain things worth getting mad about. Injustice is one of them.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“You didn’t just lose a loved one. You lost your heart, your memories, your laughter, your brain and it even took your bones. Eventually it all came back, but different. Rearranged.”
― Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month

“the new notebooks. Always strangely thrilling. Unmarred. No mistakes yet. All they held was promise and potential.”
― Louise Penny, The Brutal Telling

“FINE? Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Egotistical?”
― Louise Penny, The Brutal Telling

“Regret for things said, for things done, and not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.”
― Louise Penny, The Brutal Telling

“One thing we British do well is to join a queue.”
― Rhys Bowen, Naughty in Nice

“Those who hold power have never in all history been inclined to relinquish it willingly. Usually it has been taken from them by force, or it has slipped from their hands because they were too weak or corrupt to retain it.”
― Anne Perry, Bethlehem Road

“A brief note on revolving doors: those things are dangerous.”
― Isabel Spellman, Isabel Spellman's Guide to Etiquette: What is Wrong with You People

“The room was filled with volume and volumes. With light. With peace.”
― Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead

“leaden and laden by the recent past.”
― Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead

“while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.”
― Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead

“Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public opinion, to manufacture a common purpose or enemy. And the cornerstone of a really great movement? A powerful symbol. Take away or tarnish that and everything starts to crumble, everything’s questioned.”
― Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead

“Like whites in South Africa or the Southern states who knew that things had changed, who even accepted the changes, but who couldn’t quite shake the certainty deeply, diplomatically, hidden, that they should still be in charge.”
― Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust, Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”
― Martha Grimes, Jerusalem Inn

“It was the sort of room that made you want to stand around in it and read for the rest of your life”
― Martha Grimes, Jerusalem Inn

“He felt the loss of something irreplacable, as if a thief had come out of the night, velvet-gloved and softly shod, and taken whatever it was away without Jury’s ever having known, and slipped through the square,”
― Martha Grimes, Jerusalem Inn

“Labor Day is really the last sweet taste of summer. One final pardon before all your Mondays become Mondays again.”
― Emma Mills, First & Then

“If extraordinary incidents occurred, no matter if they were good, bad, funny, or even baffling, then several happened in a row. They didn’t like to be alone.”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, The Missing Corpse: A Brittany Mystery

“You deliberately don’t ask the questions to which you would rather not know the answers. You call it trust. You know too late that it is cowardice.”
― Anne Perry, Death in Focus

“Here this clean mirror traps me unwilling in a gone time when I was love and you were booted and brave and trembling for me.”
― Maya Angelou, The Complete Poetry

“we begin to stop in order simply to begin again.”
― Maya Angelou, The Complete Poetry

“if wishes were winged unicorns, I could fly a chariot to the moon and back by dawn.”
― Andrea Penrose, Murder at Half Moon Gate

“violent death did that. It was an eclipse, blocking out all that was beautiful, joyous, kind or lovely. So great was the calamity.”
― Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery

“like a living chant. Each of us individual notes. On our own, nothing. But together? Divine. We don’t just sing, we are the song.”
― Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery