{"author":"Louise Penny","author_id":"Louise+Penny","total_quotes":87,"quotes":[{"text":"Clara shrugged and immediately knew her betrayal of Peter. In one easy movement she'd distanced herself from his bad behavior, even thought she herself was responsible for it. Just before everyone had arrived, she'd told Peter about her adventure with Gamache. Animated and excited she'd gabbled on about her box and the woods and the exhilarating climb up the ladder to the blind. But her wall of words hid from her a growing quietude. She failed to notice his silence, his distance, until it was too late and he'd retreated all the way to his icy island. She hated that place. From it he stood and stared, judged, and lobbed shards of sarcasm.'You and your hero solve Jane's death?''I thought you'd be pleased,' she half lied. She actually hadn't thought at all, and if she had, she probably could have predicted his reaction. But since he was comfortably on his Inuk island, she'd retreat to hers, equipped with righteous indignation and warmed by moral certitude. She threw great logs of 'I'm right, you're an unfeeling bastard' onto the fire and felt secure and comforted.","author":"Louise Penny","tags":["arguments","relationships","self righteousness"],"id":581,"author_id":"Louise+Penny"},{"text":"When Olivier had been taken away Gamache had sat back down and stared at the sack. What could be worse than Chaos, Despair, War?What would even the Mountain flee from? Gamache had given it a lot of thought.What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And Gamache thought he had the answer.Regret. Regret for things said, for things done, and not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.Finally, when he was alone, the Chief Inspector had opened the sack and looking inside had realize he'd been wrong. The worst thing of all wasn't regret.","author":"Louise Penny","tags":["deathbed","haunted","regret"],"id":871,"author_id":"Louise+Penny"},{"text":"Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive?","author":"Louise Penny","tags":["forgiveness"],"id":2749,"author_id":"Louise+Penny"},{"text":"After more than a thousand years,' he continued, 'an enemy finally broke through. Not because of superior firepower. Not because the Manchus were better fighters or strategists. They weren't. The Manchus breached the Great Wall and took Beijing because someone opened a gate. From the inside. As simple as that. A general, a traitor, let them in and an empire fell.","author":"Louise Penny","tags":["betrayal","traitor"],"id":4580,"author_id":"Louise+Penny"},{"text":"Life is choice. All day, every day. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. So when I'm observing, that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make.","author":"Louise Penny","tags":["gamache","murder","mystery"],"id":14696,"author_id":"Louise+Penny"},{"text":"Not everything buried is actually dead. For many, the past is alive.","author":"Louise Penny","tags":["buried","buried-past","past"],"id":16421,"author_id":"Louise+Penny"},{"text":"Don't be so sure,' said Gamache. 'It's a little humbling to realize the pedestal isn't quite so high after all.'Brebeuf chuckled. 'Welcome to earth, Armand. It's a little dirty down here.","author":"Louise Penny","tags":["human","humbling"],"id":23963,"author_id":"Louise+Penny"},{"text":"When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.","author":"Louise Penny","tags":["hurt","pain"],"id":43932,"author_id":"Louise+Penny"},{"text":"I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong.","author":"Louise Penny","tags":["gamache","guns","humility","mistakes","tattoos"],"id":51147,"author_id":"Louise+Penny"},{"text":"Our lives are like a house. Some people are allowed on the lawn, some onto the porch, some get into the vestibule or the kitchen. The better friends are invited deeper into our home, into our living room.''And some are let into the bedroom,' said Gamache.","author":"Louise Penny","tags":["intimacy"],"id":64397,"author_id":"Louise+Penny"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":87,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}