Quotes from William Kent Krueger

She hung up and the room was a fist of silence.

These days things had a way of happening around him. Although events seemed chaotic, Cork was beginning to suspect they weren't at all. Sam Winter Moon used to say that sometimes the only way a man learns the true spirit of a rock is to stub his toe on it.

Closing her eyes, she began to let herself dream. Not sleep dreaming, but dreaming of how her life might be. It was a thing she didn't often do. In her experience, good things came with great difficulty and were too easily snatched away. She'd longo ago learned to accept what she had at any given moment and try to be happy with only that. She could think about the furniture, plan even, but not expect. It was the expectation that was the trap.

Most animals can be tamed, I suppose," Cork replied. "The question is, do you really want to? Make them tame and they become easy prey for people not as kindly disposed toward them as you are.

In every sinner, Gertie, is the possibility of a saint.

Sure this is hard work, but it's good work because it's a part of what connects us to this land, Buck. This beautiful, tender land.

I think we just keep going on. We keep doing what we always do and someday it'll feel right again.

and the smoke from the fire rose straight up toward the arc of the heavens, which was sugared with stars.

Loss comes in every moment. Second by second our lives are stolen from us. What is last will never come again.

In every sinner is the possibility of a saint.

Heavenly Father, for the blessings of this food and these friends and our families, we thank you. In Jesus's name, amen.

I'm tired of feeling mad. I'm tired of feeling sad. . . I just want things to be okay again.

You are the light. The darkness will always try to snuff you out.

maybe even in the fires of Hell there might be an angel walking around with a bucket of cool water and a dipper.

What comes, comes, why bark?

Funerals weren't just about the dead. They were about the dead leaving this world to reside with God, someone Mother wasn't seeing eye to eye with at the moment, if she ever had, and I couldn't shake the concern that in the middle of the service she would spring from her pew and find some way to spite him.

There will be courage in this story and cowardice. There will be love and betrayal. And, of course, there will be hope. In the end, isn't that what every good story is about?

To kill the Windigo, Meloux had said, you must become a Windigo, too. A man was never just a man. A man was endless possibility waiting to become.

She gazed at me, and in her eyes I found what it was I'd been searching for all along, searching for without understanding. Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood, heart of my heart.

I don't know why a government would behave any differently from the people who comprise it," Mother Beal said around the stem of her pipe. "When it comes to money, people often behave in ungracious and ungrateful ways.

It was a feeling that should have been familiar to us by then, but does anyone ever get used to having their heart broken?

There are two kinds of people in the world, Norman. People who have things and people who want the things other people have. A day don't go by that there's not war somewhere in this world. A war to end all wars? That's like saying a disease to end all diseases. Only way that'll happen is when every human being on this earth is dead.

Somebody tells you they drink because they're a failure, it ain't so. They're a failure because they drink. And they drink because it's so damn hard not to. But as long as they have a bottle that isn't empty, they never feel far from being happy. ("Bums")

And, Jake, there's going to be lots in this world you're going to feel bad about. Save your regret for the important things, okay?" Gus