Louise Penny Quotes
Things are strongest where they're broken.
Penny, Louise. How the Light Gets In. Minotaur Books, 2013.
The commissioner was responding to questions about a player-fan brawl that had occurred earlier that year. The media had replayed the tapes of the event thousands of times. The commissioner’s observation applied to everyone in the public eye. Politicians too are so defined as when Edmund Muskie during the Presidential Primary contest cried or with Nixon’s attack on the press or Governor Dean’s scream in Iowa.
Louise Penny CM (born 1958) is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of francophone Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Penny's first career was as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). After she turned to writing, she won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha Award for best mystery novel of the year five times, including four consecutive years (2007–2010), and the Anthony Award for best novel of the year five times, including four consecutive years (2010–2013). Her novels have been published in 23 languages.
