The Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series, #7-9 Quotes

“People die in bits and pieces. A series of petites morts. Little deaths. They lose their sight, their hearing, their independence. Those are the physical ones. But there’re others. Less obvious, but more fatal. They lose heart. They lose hope. They lose faith. They lose interest. And finally, they lose themselves”
― Louise Penny, The Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series, #7-9

“They’d crossed over to that continent where grieving parents lived. It looked the same as the rest of the world, but wasn’t. Colors bled pale. Music was just notes. Books no longer transported or comforted, not fully. Never again. Food was nutrition, little more. Breaths were sighs.”
― Louise Penny, The Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series, #7-9

“The room erupted into laughter. Indeed, people laughed all the way through. When Brian told them about being in the psych ward and having his doctor ask how much he drank, and he told him a beer a day, the place went hysterical with laughter. Gamache and Beauvoir exchanged looks. Even the president was amused.”
― Louise Penny, The Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series, #7-9

“It’s possible to have a leader you wouldn’t choose as a friend. But you need to at least respect them.”
― Louise Penny, The Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series, #7-9

“One of the elders told him that when he was a boy his grandfather came to him one day and said he had two wolves fighting inside him. One was gray, the other black. The gray one wanted his grandfather to be courageous, and patient, and kind. The other, the black one, wanted his grandfather to be fearful and cruel. This upset the boy and he thought about it for a few days then returned to his grandfather. He asked, ‘Grandfather, which of the wolves will win?’” The abbot smiled slightly and examined the Chief Inspector. “Do you know what his grandfather said?” Gamache shook his head. There was a look of such sadness on the Chief Inspector’s face, it almost broke the abbot’s heart. “The one I feed,” said Dom Philippe.”
― Louise Penny, The Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series, #7-9

“She wore an enormous flannel nightie covered in scenes of skiers and snowshoers, frolicking all over Mont Myrna.”
― Louise Penny, The Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series, #7-9

“saw Gamache shaking his head he reconsidered. “Not the maps?”
― Louise Penny, The Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series, #7-9