Lightning Strike (Cork O'Connor, #0)

by William Kent Krueger

Do our demons ever go away for good?

“When you’re an alcoholic, you’re never cured. You’re always in recovery.”

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

“To this world, we listen with our ears,” Meloux said at last. “To the world beyond, we listen with our hearts.

But intentions could be like cloud animals in the sky, so

clear for a while, then shifting, then fading, then gone.

“In my experience, pain is never the only offering. What we receive depends on what we open our hearts to.”

“Every heart wants to find peace. In the end, that is the place the Creator takes us.”

When the journey ahead takes you to the darkest of places, the joy in these memories will be a part of the light that helps you see your way through.

seems to me more and more, Sam, that we don’t choose our lives. Our lives choose us.’