Sulfur Springs Quotes

“Across the dark night, we are not afraid. Our love is the star that guides us. Through the empty desert, we do not thirst. Our love is the water that refreshes. On the long journey, we do not weary. Our love is the truth that offers strength. As the mountains rise before us, we are not discouraged. Our love is the hope that waits on the other side. When we are together, let us hold hands. Our love is the promise that is never broken.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“Memories sing to us, he told me. They’re birds whose songs never fade.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“In news reports, we watched the wall along the Mexican border expand, the folly of a belief that what we had to fear came from the outside.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“Often, the laws that white people ignored without a second thought were the ones that got flashing lights and a siren on the ass of someone of color.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“Any landscape under moonlight is a beautiful mystery. The high desert of southern Arizona, with its hills and black mountain silhouetted against a star-salted sky, was no exception.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“Trust. An easy word to say. One syllable. Comes readily off the tongue. Also a thing easy to believe in, to advocate for, to hold in lofty regard. But putting it into practice? Good luck with that one. You share your life, your body, your dreams with another human being. You tie your fortune together with sacred vows. But the truth is that you always keep some deep part of yourself separate from all that. You hold a place inside that’s only for you and that you never let anyone else into.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“You have work ahead of you, Niece. It will probably be hard work, work that will test you. That is one of the things love does. It tests us in difficult ways. But love is also fear’s worst enemy. In what is ahead of you, hold to your love and not your fear. And when you imagine, imagine the best of what might be.” He smiled and offered a little shrug. “What harm can it do?”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“Maybe they weren’t innocent in the eyes of the law, but there’s something more important than the law, and that is simply compassion. That might sound strange coming from a man who’s spent a good deal of his life behind a badge, but laws are made by human beings and human beings are not infallible. We make laws for all kinds of reasons, and not always the right ones. One of the most powerful motivations for the enactment of legislation is fear, and when you act out of fear, you risk becoming exactly the kind of monster you’re trying to bar the door against.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“And I thought, as I had so many times before, that what's important to a human being, any human being, isn't the wealth that comes from money, but the richness that comes from community, a sense of connectedness to family and to friends and, as Rainy and Henry would probably have said, to the spirit of the Great Mystery that runs through all creation.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“We erect fences. We build walls. And what does that invite? Hostility breeds hostility. Fear breeds fear.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“I understood that the past is never really past. We live out history over and over, the worst of our memories right there alongside us, step for step, our companions to the grave.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“That is one thing love does. It tests us in difficult ways. But love is also fear's worst enemy. In what is ahead of you, hold to your love and not your fear. And when you imagine, imagine the best of what might be.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“They’re birds whose songs never fade.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“laws are made by human beings and human beings are not infallible. We make laws for all kinds of reasons, and not always the right ones. One of the most powerful motivations for the enactment of legislation is fear, and when you act out of fear, you risk becoming exactly the kind of monster you’re trying to bar the door against. I”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“In every human being there are two wolves constantly battling. One is love and the other is fear. The wolf that wins the battle is the one you feed. Always the one you feed.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“A lesson from my earliest memories of my grandmother Dilsey, who was true-blood Iron Lake Ojibwe: Land is not insentient; it is possessed of spirit. Gazing down, I couldn’t help feeling that the fence and all it represented was a great violation of the spirit of the land. The mind-set that gave rise to the fence was a great folly, the idea that a thin wall of steel and the imaginary line it demarcated could stand against the tide that swept across the desert, which was the tide of time and changing circumstance. Politics were of a moment. Sentiments shifted. Nations rose and fell. Steel rusted and crumbled. But the desert and the flow of life across it would continue after that fence was nothing but scattered rubble among the cacti and the fear that built it was long forgotten.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

“The demons that plague you are patient horrors. You may think that you've dealt with them, driven them out with logic, put them to rest with prayer, but they're never really gone. They're always with you. And why? Because they're not things separate from you. They are you.”
― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs

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― William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs