William Kent Krueger Quotes

The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.

The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.

You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.

At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.