The Beautiful Mystery Quotes.

1. "What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured a loneliness I never knew I had. It gave me joy. And freedom. I think that was the most amazing part. I suddenly felt both embraced and freed at the same time."
- Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery

2. "One of the elders told him that when he was a boy his grandfather came to him one day and said he had two wolves fighting inside him. One was gray, the other black. The gray one wanted his grandfather to be courageous, and patient, and kind. The other, the black one, wanted his grandfather to be fearful and cruel. This upset the boy, and he thought about it for a few days then returned to his grandfather. He asked, 'Grandfather, which of the wolves will win?' The abbot smiled slightly and examined the Chief Inspector. 'Do you know what his grandfather said?' Gamache shook his head. . . . 'The one I feed,' said Dom Philippe."
- Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery

3. "Beauvoir knew that the root of all evil wasn’t money. No, what created and drove evil was fear. Fear of not having enough money, enough food, enough land, enough power, enough security, enough love. Fear of not getting what you want, or losing what you have."
- Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery

4. "The Catholic Church wasn't just a part of his parents' live, and his grandparents', it ruled their lives. The priests told them what to eat, what to do, who to vote for, what to think. What to believe. Told them to have more and more babies. Kept them pregnant and poor and ignorant. They'd been beaten in school, scolded in church, abused in the back rooms. And when, after generations of this, they'd finally walked away, the Church had accused them of being unfaithful. And threatened them with eternal damnation."
- Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery

5. "Had peace and quiet become so rare that when finally found they could be mistaken for something grotesque and unnatural? It would appear so."
- Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery

6. "Plenty of time for a close friendship to turn to hate. As only a good friendship could. The conduit to the heart was already created."
- Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery

7. "In trying to capture the beautiful mystery, this monk had invented written music. Not yet notes, what he’d written became known as neumes."
- Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery

8. "The glass was old. Leaded. Imperfect. And it was the imperfections that were creating the play of light."
- Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery

9. "We can all fall, said the abbot. But perhaps not as hard and not as fast and not as far as someone who spends his life on the ascent."
- Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery

10. "Like the rest of the Québécois? Like Beauvoir himself? Did they curse the Church? Câlice! Tabernac! Hostie! The Québécois had turned religious words into dirty words."
- Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery