“How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.”

“How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that everymoment of their time together had meant so little to him”

“White light lowered itself into a boxing ring and a crowd stood and murmured--that magical sound of many people talking all at once. How could every person there have so much to say at the same time?”

“I wondered how my heart could be both light with happiness and heavy with love at the same time.”

“Gamache nodded. It was what made his job so fascinating, and so difficult. How the same person could be both kind and cruel, compassionate and wretched. Unraveling a murder was more about getting to know the people than the evidence. People who were contrary and contradictory, and who often didn't even know themselves.”

“I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”