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?

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 takes all of our life to learn how to live, and – something that may surprise you more – it takes just as long to learn how to die.

Yeah…hey, you have a male here.” Shay walked toward the hall, sniffing the air. “And he’s human. Way to go, Dani!

Three things give hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses breathing cold air and eating dry food.

Through my life, [there have been] a lot of devils and a lot of situations, so I'm just goin' hard, maintaining, regardless of what people got to say about Ace Hood.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Others fear what the morrow may bring. I am afraid of what happened yesterday.

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.