Tamarack County Quotes

“You are the light. The darkness will always try to snuff you out.”
― William Kent Krueger, Tamarack County

“Anger, hate, jealousy, envy, fear. Fill your pockets with these heavy stones and you spend your life trying not to drown. Throw them away and you float. The great current of life simply sweeps you up and carries you joyously to the place you were always meant to come to. Make no mistake, you will arrive there either way, through struggle or surrender. But one is the way of pain, the other of peace.”
― William Kent Krueger, Tamarack County

“If you throw yourself onto the fire of guilt, it will be a useless sacrifice. We do not know, any of us, the Great Mystery’s purpose in this. But purpose there is.”
― William Kent Krueger, Tamarack County

“The world is full of human beings you won’t understand. They’ll do things you find outrageous, repugnant, incomprehensible. But you know, Stephen, it’s been my experience that, more often than not, in their own twisted minds, they see themselves as the good guys.”
― William Kent Krueger, Tamarack County

“It’s not cynicism. It’s healthy skepticism.”
― William Kent Krueger, Tamarack County