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.

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.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it showed with every syllable. Gamache knew it was impossible to split language from culture. That without one the other withered. To love the language was to respect the culture.

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.