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Louise Penny, née le 1er juillet 1958 à Toronto, est une femme de lettres canadienne surtout connue pour ses romans policiers. En 2011, elle demeure à Sutton au Québec où se situe le décor des enquêtes de l'inspecteur québécois Armand Gamache de la Sûreté du Québec. Les livres de cette série lui ont valu quatre fois de suite le prix Agatha pour le roman policier de l'année qui se conforme au genre du whodunit dans le style d'Agatha Christie. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. juillet 1958  •  Autres noms Луиз Пени
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Louise Penny Citations

“C’est vrai.”

Louise Penny livre Bury Your Dead

Bury Your Dead

Louise Penny: Citations en anglais

“Things are strongest where they're broken.”

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Louise Penny livre Bury Your Dead

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

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Louise Penny livre Still Life

Source: Still Life

“What are you afraid of?
I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.”

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Louise Penny livre The Brutal Telling

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

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Louise Penny livre A Fatal Grace

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“I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.”

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Louise Penny livre A Fatal Grace

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

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Source: A Rule Against Murder

“Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your actions
Your actions become your destiny.

Mahatma Ghandi,” he said. “There’s more, but I can’t remember it all.”

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Louise Penny livre A Fatal Grace

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“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.”

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Louise Penny livre Still Life

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“It's a blessing Madame Gamache and I had at our wedding. It was read at the end of the ceremony.(Apache Blessing)”

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Louise Penny livre Bury Your Dead

Source: Bury Your Dead

“Now here's a good one:
you're lying on your deathbed.
You have one hour to live.
Who is it, exactly, you have needed
all these years to forgive?”

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Louise Penny livre A Fatal Grace

Source: A Fatal Grace

“Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson."

"Lake and Palmer?"

"Ralph and Waldo.”

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Louise Penny livre A Fatal Grace

Source: A Fatal Grace

“Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.”

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Louise Penny livre A Fatal Grace

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“I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.”

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Louise Penny livre Still Life

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“We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?”

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Source: A Rule Against Murder

“I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.”

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Louise Penny livre Still Life

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“The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first time, at the perfection of nature where leaves were most beautiful at the very end of their lives.”

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Louise Penny livre The Brutal Telling

Source: The Brutal Telling

“Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile….. But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.”

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Louise Penny livre Still Life

Source: Still Life

“Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Most of these people are very immature. They lead "still" lives, waiting.”

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Louise Penny livre Still Life

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“I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong.”

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Louise Penny livre A Fatal Grace

Source: A Fatal Grace

“They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.”

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Louise Penny livre Still Life

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“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.”

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Louise Penny livre A Fatal Grace

Variante: 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.
Source: A Fatal Grace

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