Still Life / A Fatal Grace / The Cruelest Month Quotes

“Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?”
― Louise Penny, Still Life / A Fatal Grace / The Cruelest Month

“Fear might stop some people from committing murder, but he knew for certain fear was what drove most people to kill. It was what nested below all the other emotions. It was what twisted and turned the other emotions into something sick. It was an alchemist and could turn daylight into night, joy into despair. Fear, once taken root, blocked the sun.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life / A Fatal Grace / The Cruelest Month

“what often distinguished great people of the arts wasn’t genius, but perseverance.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life / A Fatal Grace / The Cruelest Month