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

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.

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.

To gain wisdom you must be willing to invest time, energy, and money in your personal development.

Drink from the fountain of love where every drop is eternal passion.

Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.

It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.

I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.