Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.

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

Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.

What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought he had the answer. Regret. Regret for things said, things done, and things not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.

But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.