Shakespeare: …the best way to peace is to have a still and quiet conscience. Or none at all, thought Gamache.

In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

…and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge

He had his treasure, but finally all he wanted was his family. And peace.

Joy doesn't ever leave, you know. It's always with you. And one day you'll find it again.

…struck. Once. And into that blow he put his childhood, his grief, his loss. He put his mother’s sorrow and his sister’s longing. The menorah, weighed down with that, crushed the Hermit’s skull.

That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad.

…in the library…surrounded by things far more dangerous than what roamed the school corridors. For here thoughts were housed.

Not everything buried is actually dead. For many, the past is alive.

She’d forgotten to love, but she also forgot to hate. (about Clara’s mother, who had dementia)

A murder was never about brawn, it began and ended in the brain and the brain could justify anything.

The happiness of your life depends on which thoughts you choose to believe.

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus

I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

Good is done by degrees.

The word relationship best refers to the connection between parasite and host, or shark and remora. It's a biological term. I'd rather be a jerk than a scientist when it comes to love.

You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.

I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Kitten, when did you get so tall? (Ravyn) I grew while you were in the bathroom. (Erika)