Copper River Quotes

“History. And from history came community. And community was something that spread out beyond itself, resulting in towns and nations. But it all began with family.”
― William Kent Krueger, Copper River

“Cats, dogs, we spay or neuter, but people we let procreate with blithe abandon, people who have no business bringing children into this world.”
― William Kent Krueger, Copper River

“Lots of folks down near the pier. Is something special going on today, Ren?”
― William Kent Krueger, Copper River

“[…] her head, covered by the dark bristle of her returning hair, looked like a dough ball rolled in iron filings.”
― William Kent Krueger, Copper River

“A wise man. He told me once every falling leaf comes to rest where it was always meant to.”
― William Kent Krueger, Copper River

“generally”
― William Kent Krueger, Copper River

“His father had been murdered fifteen hundred miles away. He was just gone. He became the emptiness of the cabin, and that’s how Ren had thought of death. Emptiness. A grabbing at air. A conversation stopped in mid-sentence. A body from which the soul had simply departed.”
― William Kent Krueger, Copper River

“killed him for the money and the woman. I didn’t get the money and I didn’t get the woman.’ Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity.”
― William Kent Krueger, Copper River

“You”
― William Kent Krueger, Copper River

“There was spirit in all things, Cork believed, knowledge in every molecule of creation. Nothing ever went truly unnoticed, from the fall of a single leaf to the death of a child.”
― William Kent Krueger, Copper River

“Cats, dogs, we spay or neuter, but people we let procreate with blithe abandon, people who have no business bringing children into this world. When those kids become desperate we don’t see them, don’t hear them. As long as they’re not haunting our block, staring hopelessly into our windows, we can pretend they don’t exist or worse, that whatever horror they deal with they’ve brought on themselves.”
― William Kent Krueger, Copper River