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.

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  Heart, Air, Mind

  William Kent Krueger (2014). “Ordinary Grace: A Novel”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Morning, Miracle, Able

  William Kent Krueger (2014). “Ordinary Grace: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Giving, Deserve

  William Kent Krueger (2012). “The William Kent Krueger Collection #1: Iron Lake, Boundary Waters, and Purgatory Ridge”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Sin, Guilty

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

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  Strong, Easy, Used

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

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  People, Cleaning, Mess

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

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  Night, Doubt, Accomplices

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• We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow lane where headstones press close all around, reminding me gently of Warren Redstone’s parting wisdom, which I understand now. 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.

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  Heart, Men, Air

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• 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.

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  Long, Here And There, Moments

  William Kent Krueger (2014). “Ordinary Grace: A Novel”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best.

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  Evil, Understanding, Wish

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• 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.

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  Boys, Men, Fishing

  William Kent Krueger (2014). “Ordinary Grace: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Believe, Men, World

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• Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.

  William Kent Krueger

  Beautiful, Book, Sleep

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