Northwest Angle Quotes

“White men get drunk. White men break the law. And nobody says it's because they're white. But an Indian does the same thing and the first reason people come up with is that he's Indian.”
― William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle

“It’s so quiet you can hear the dark sliding down the sky.”
― William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle

“Love is the only river I know whose current flows both ways.”
― William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle

“I believe no one belongs to anyone else. You, me, Waaboozoons, we are all dust borrowed for a little while from Grandmother Earth. And even that dust does not belong to her. She has borrowed it from all creation, which is the Great Mystery, whih is Kitchimanidoo. And if you ask this old man, I would say that another way to think about Kitchimanidoo is as a great gift. Kitchimanidoo is not about keeping. Nothing belongs to anyone. All of creation is meant as a giving.”
― William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle

“Cork could have argued, but he'd learned a long time ago that, when confronting men with big rifles and little minds, discretion was best.”
― William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle

“Cork thought the man was way too sensitive, but in his experience, a lot of deeply religious people were. In his own mind, there was often a profound difference between those who thought of themselves as religious people and those who preferred to think of themselves as spiritual. Given a choice, he'd go with the latter every time.”
― William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle

“In the beginning of the journey of this child, or any child, is the understanding that each foot will fall into a different track. Happiness on one side, sadness on the other. Pleasure and pain. Wisdom and folly. With each step, this child will learn that there is in him the possibility of great good and also great evil. It is a serious matter, guiding this child along the path of right living.”
― William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle

“A bird sheds a little feather, that feather comes to rest where Kitchimanidoo always meant for it to be. Nothing in all creation happens by accident.”
― William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle

“On July 3, 1999, a cluster of thunderstorms developed in the Black Hills area of South Dakota and began to track to the northeast.”
― William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle

“I think Kitchimanidoo is not the Creator but the possibility of creation, all creation, good and bad.”
― William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle

“We care about a lot of people, but we choose to love a very few.”
― William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle

“The ice chest I filled with bedding?” Bascombe finally said. “I cut a little chamber in the bottom and put in a long-range GPS tracker.”
― William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle

“Children, in my experience, are an inconvenience. And children, in my experience,”
― William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle