Purgatory Ridge Quotes

“In the absence of proof, you believe.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“Conscience was a devil that plagued the individual. Collectively, a people squashed it as easily as stepping on a daisy.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“You will share the same fire. You will hang your garments together. You will help one another. You will walk the same trail. You will look after one another. Be kind to one another. Be kind to your children.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“HISTORY, IN CORK’S OPINION, was a useless discipline, an assemblage of accounts and memories, often flawed, that in the end did the world no service. Math and science could be applied in concrete ways. Literature, if it didn’t enlighten, at least entertained. But history? History was simply a study in futility. Because people never learned.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“I gave you what you wanted, someone to blame for all your misery.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“Her mother's bitterness was always there, just below the surface, hauled up swiftly and easily by whiskey on the rocks.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“The minutes of the alarm clock on the nightstand crept by like a procession of condemned men.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“You can keep company with despair, or you can choose a different companion.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“HISTORY, IN CORK’S OPINION, was a useless discipline, an assemblage of accounts and memories, often flawed, that in the end did the world no service. Math and science could be applied in concrete ways. Literature, if it didn’t enlighten, at least entertained. But history? History was simply a study in futility. Because people never learned. Century after century, they committed the same atrocities against one another or against the earth, and the only thing that changed was the magnitude of the slaughter.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“traditional marriage ceremony of the Anishinaabeg. You will share the same fire. You will hang your garments together. You will help one another. You will walk the same trail. You will look after one another. Be kind to one another. Be kind to your children.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“And Celia, once she began, talked in a line no straighter than a sloppy drunk could have walked.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“As Cork drove away, he leaned out the window of his Bronco and called out to his children a father’s wish and a father’s blessing: “Be good.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“He’d hated FDR, had revered Truman, made sport of Eisenhower, and was fond of saying—though never in print—that JFK stood for Just a Fucking Kid.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“The ban was in place for many decades until 1995 when President Clinton signed into law a bill creating the Energy Salvage Timber Sales Program.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, and Jell-O with bananas—”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“Harold?” Schanno asked it seriously. “He’s seventy-two, Mr. Lindstrom. Even when he stays awake, he probably doesn’t see much.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge