| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition. | Gilbert Parker | Pierre And His People |  |
| . . . they had courage; without which, men are as the standing straw in an unreaped field in winter; but having become like the hooded pine, that keepeth green in frost, and hath the bounding blood in all its icy branches. | Gilbert Parker | Pierre And His People |  |
| "Every shot that kills ricochets." | Gilbert Parker | Romany of the Snows |  |
| Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy. | Gilbert Parker | Romany of the Snows |  |
| . . . being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care. | Gilbert Parker | Northern Lights |  |
| "There's no tongue that's so tied, when tying's needed, as the one that babbles most bewhiles. Babbling covers a lot of secrets." | Gilbert Parker | Northern Lights |  |
| "The real business of life is trying to understand each other." | Gilbert Parker | Northern Lights |  |
| "There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance." | Gilbert Parker | Mrs. Falchion |  |
| "There was no tragedy in his death--death is a magnificent ally; it untangles knots." | Gilbert Parker | Mrs. Falchion |  |
| She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good. | Gilbert Parker | Mrs. Falchion |  |