“Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?”

“But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.”

“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.”

“At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic momentsgo unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.”

“Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything”

“Wait, Armand, he heard behind him but kept walking, ignoring the calls. Then he remembered what Emile had meant to him and still did. Did this one bad thing wipe everything else out?That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad.But not today. Gamache stopped.”