The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'.

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.

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy.

Shut off the internal bashing.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person.

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

I mean, [Donald Trump] won by a sizable margin.

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

It was the fault of David Trezeguet, who made me do one drink of vodka after another. I slept in the bathtub. Now I hold my vodka much better.