Quotes from William Kent Krueger

Word is you heard the Windigo too." I did. The difference is I'm ready for the son of a bitch." --Cork O'Connor

When darkness comes over your soul, it doesn't come in light shades; it descends with all the black of a moonless night.

NOTHING IS EVER everything, but the loss of a true love feels that way. All-consuming. The blackest hole. The emptiest place in the universe.

It made me think that no matter how big we grew or how old, there was always a child in us somewhere.

The dead. No more'n a breath. You let that last one go and you're with them again.

Straight is my path. Straight is my mind. Straight is my heart. Straight is my speech. Kind will I be to my brothers and sisters. Kind will I be to beast and bird.

The beauty isn't in the jewel itself, but in the way the light shines through it.

Haven't you seen that part of me as well? A man's many things. To isolate one part of him and judge him on that alone is to do him an injustice, don't you think?

Sam's Place had never felt so empty. He suspected the emptiness was not in the old Quonset hut; it was in him. There was nothing in him now, nothing but the great emptiness of death, which he seemed to carry with him like a virus.

Finally Albert whispered, "Listen, Odie, what does a shepherd eat?" I didn't know where he was going with that, so I didn't reply. "His flock," Albert told me. "One by one.

It's hard to say good-bye and almost impossible to accomplish this alone and ritual is the railing we hold to, all of us together, that keeps us upright and connected until the worst is past.

When I pray, Odie, I never pray for perfection. I pray for forgiveness, because it's the one prayer I know will always be answered.

Cork wished there were a forecast for his spirit. He felt the dark and the cold penetrating deep in him. He wondered when there would be warmth again, when there would be light.

people are most afraid of things they don't understand, and if something frightened you, you should get closer to it. That didn't mean it wouldn't still be an awful thing, but the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined.

what I know in my heart is a mystery beyond human comprehension. Perhaps the most important truth I've learned across the whole of my life is that it's only when I yield to the river and embrace the journey that I find peace.

Our eyes perceive so dimly, and our brains are so easily confused. Far better, I believe, to be like children and open ourselves to every beautiful possibility, for there is nothing our hearts can imagine that is not so.

In the absence of proof, you believe.

It's only when I yield to the river and embrace the journey that I find peace.

the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined.

He knew there was no magic to wipe clean the slate of memory. You just learned how to move on.

But somewhere in the vault of our hearts, in a place our brains can't or won't touch, the worst is stored, and the only sure key to it is in our dreams.

So, among the many pieces of wisdom life has offered me over all these years is this: Open yourself to every possibility, for there is nothing your heart can imagine that is not so.

They understand that if you repeat a lie often enough, eventually the public is going to accept it as truth.

Conscience was a devil that plagued the individual. Collectively, a people squashed it as easily as stepping on a daisy.