Boundary Waters Quotes

“Straight is my path. Straight is my mind. Straight is my heart. Straight is my speech. Kind will I be to my brothers and sisters. Kind will I be to beast and bird.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“Good luck, Cork thought. In Aurora, a Lincoln Town Car would be as inconspicuous as a nun in a G-string.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“she was used to dealing with worry by sinking herself completely into the facts of a situation. Her strength lay in her ability to scrutinize circumstances from every angle and to anticipate the moves of an opponent. But she didn’t have facts and she didn’t know her opponent, and all she was left with was the worry.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“Kind will I be to beast and bird.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“Straight is my path. Straight is my mind. Straight is my heart. Straight is my speech. Kind will I be to my”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“We don’t die. In the things we pass on to our children, we go on living. There’s a lot of your mother alive in you.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“But I know you, brother. And I know you got all the substance of a soap bubble.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“He looked like a man who’d invited himself to dinner only to discover that the special of the day was a plateful of shit.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“What does she see in him?’ Cork asked. ‘He looks like a burned matchstick.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“Before he’d shoved off in his canoe, he’d said, “We don’t die. In the things we pass on to our children, we go on living.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“The law wasn’t perfect, but anytime those who had the power to twist it did so, it grew more grotesque.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“the young woman was either a superb actress or had truly felt, as most women ultimately did, the utter betrayal of love. The”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“To breathe, to eat, to sleep, and to do so fearlessly—how much more did anyone need to be happy? Wealth, Wendell had impressed on her, was not a value the Anishinaabe held. Sharing was the way of The People.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“Long after dark, the moon rose, full. All the stars around it vanished as if the moon were a bucket that had scooped them up, filling itself to overflowing with their silver light.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“there would be no sign that Molly Nurmi had ever been. In the time before the cold science of the whites came to Iron Lake, the Anishinaabe believed the water was bottomless. There was a tradition among the Iron Lake Ojibwe. Before they were married, a couple would take strands of their hair and braid a cord. On the day they were wed, they tied the cord around a stone, canoed to the middle of the lake, and dropped the stone into the water. The stone descended forever, they believed”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“Straight is my path. Straight is my mind. Straight is my heart. Straight is my speech. Kind will I be to my brothers and sisters. Kind will I be to beast and bird. He”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“wouldn’t talk to you.” Cork”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“Acid rain is killing the fish and trees.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

“Funny, she thought, how little it took to be happy when there was little choice.”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters