A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

The night is a strawberry.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

What you want most you push away from you.You want more than you care to admit.

The course of a life can be changed with some well timed, lovingly asked, honestly answered questions.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Noble souls through dust and heat rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

In that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.'

Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?

I cant believe anybody would celebrate a holiday where a jolly prowler breaks into your house and leaves gifts.