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

“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. The UN would be powerless, of course. Paralyzed by fear and endless debate and vetoes. Yes, he thought as they slid down the highway, it could be done. But it would take years of preparation, of groundwork, of placing conspirators”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

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

“Thank you to all the booksellers”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“But the huge painting that all this led up to”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“To a man who had the courage to feed the grey wolf,” said Armand.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“villagers snug and safe in their homes. “You could have told me.” Jean-Guy’s words came out black and blue with hurt.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“But Armand trusted everyone at the table”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“If that had worked”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“May you be a brave man in a brave country.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“They were deep inside the Parliament Buildings”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“What Gamache had not anticipated was that Woodford would also order his guards to attack a journalist. Take her phone”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“You’re right,” said Woodford with a huge sigh. “War Plan Red is the American strategy for invading Canada. Making this nation the fifty-first state.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“Of course Jeanne Caron”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household,” muttered Jean-Guy. “What was that?” Lauzon asked. “Matthew 10:36. Something the Chief Inspector learned from his first boss in the Sûreté and passes on to all his agents.” “I wish he’d told me.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“He and Lacoste both knew from bitter experience that this was how tragedies occurred. Not on purpose”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“Mein Kampf is a manifesto. A hate-filled”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“Any nation that would invade a friendly country is not a friend and certainly cannot be trusted.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“When that didn’t work”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“So when you fight”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“The IP addresses in Charles Langlois’s file”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“Politics was not just becoming more polarized”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“A watershed”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“This rock is Eden,” said Ruth quietly. “Shipwreck here.” “One of yours?” “Auden.”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“The future is shaped every day by men and women who invent technologies. Often ones whose potential they don’t understand. Often ones used far differently than their creators intended. Technologies which to our grandparents would have been science fiction. And what happens when that technology—AI”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf

“Many more fires”
― Louise Penny, The Black Wolf