The Black Wolf Quotes

“How else are we going to survive,” he told them, “unless we also see the kindness, the courage, the decency in people? There’s more goodness than cruelty in this world.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“Politics was not just becoming more polarized, it was far more dangerous, with people on all sides giving themselves permission to act in the most horrific ways. Ways that their grandparents would never recognize or approve of. That they themselves would not have approved of just a few years ago. All in the name of patriotism. A word, a concept, that had become weaponized, even toxic.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“Lauzon was far from the first politician whose reins of power were around the necks of their citizenry.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“Gamache knew, better than most, that hate bound a person to the one they hated. They were taken prisoner by that loathing, while the one they despised went merrily about their life, often oblivious.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“He needed to make examples of his enemies”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“Beauvoir. “They’re lining up again. Even worse. Who else will see this?” “Eventually everyone at Environment Canada”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“watershed moment was when a decision needed to be made that changed everything. It was a turning point.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“A tyrant posing as a strong leader”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“Look at the Caesars. Alexander. Look at Genghis Khan. Napoleon. Look at Hitler and Putin. Wolves know no boundaries”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“How else are we going to survive,” he told them”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“He let whoever he was with know they were not just fascinating”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“True,” she”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“careering”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“hate bound a person to the one they hated. They were taken prisoner by that loathing, while the one they despised went merrily about their life, often oblivious.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“watch the Brussels sprouts, roasting in the oven amid sliced garlic and Parmesan and small dabs of red currant”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“watch the Brussels sprouts, roasting in the oven amid sliced garlic and Parmesan and small dabs of red currant jelly.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“But the huge painting that all this led up to, the one at the very end, the last one Clara painted, was of a single snowflake, glittering in perfection. A moment before it began to melt. The tragedy wasn’t its disappearance. The gift was that it existed at all. What a perfect, beautiful world, where snowflakes existed. Even for a moment.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“If he were in charge of the attack, how would he go about it? First, a covert war. Create a common enemy. Subvert the media. Form their own outlets, broadcast media, newspapers, social media platforms, to spread lies. Scare the population into believing their way of life, their very lives, were threatened. Condition them. Groom them. Then, when the moment was right, get rid of any leader likely to oppose them and install a dummy regime, including a charismatic but not overly bright bully sold as a strong leader who could bring order to chaos.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“This isn’t about reasons or reason. It’s all emotion.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“Hate bound a person to the one they hated. They were taken prisoner by that loathing, while the one they despised went merrily about their life, often oblivious.

He was tired of being tied to this man. And yet he was so used to it, part of him did not want to be unbound. And a big part of him did not want to be in the position of having to say, I forgive you. And then work toward making that true.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“He took a seat in the quiet cathedral, breathing in the musky, slightly cloying fragrance of a century’s worth of incense. It smelled of guilt and sin and a promise of forgiveness and a place in heaven, if you ate fish on Fridays.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“Beauvoir barely suppressed a grin. He and Honoré had been watching The Wizard of Oz. Over and over. The Cowardly Shit would make a good character in an alternative production. He’d watch that.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“Three Pines is a state of mind. A place we carry with us always and live in when we see the chance for the clever, often cutting, remark, but choose kindness. When we are forgiving, as we sometimes need to be forgiven. When we choose decency, and acceptance. When we have integrity and the courage to stand up for what we know to be right. Even at some personal cost.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“Dom Philippe was the one who’d first, years earlier on the shores of a pristine lake, told Armand the tale of the grey and black wolves, engaged in battle. The one advocating for decency, for peace, for civility and the courage to be kind. To forgive. The other pressing forward with an agenda of hate, of aggression. Of retribution. Of a quest for power and domination, through fear.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf