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.

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

... sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.

Crying is part of the adventure

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.

You're in a fight and have to dig down... I find peace in that and enjoy it.

If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.