Heaven's Keep Quotes

“At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.”
― William Kent Krueger, Heaven's Keep

“Why don't the spirits just tell us things, Henry? How come they make it so hard?
The old man laughed. I think it is like this. The spirits shoot an arrow. It is past us before we can see it clearly. But if we follow, eventually we come to the place where it has lodged. And we realize the arrow is not important. What is important is the place it has guided us to.”
― William Kent Krueger, Heaven's Keep

“...everything he was looking at was about to change. Change was the destiny of all things, living or not. The best anyone could hope for was to have strong hand in shaping what came next.”
― William Kent Krueger, Heaven's Keep

“This was different country from home. This was a harsh, difficult place, and he hated it. Hated the way all the land rose up like walls. Hated how all that emptiness could so easily swallow a plane and its passengers. Hated that it seemed to be a land with no heart.
Henry Meloux would argue with him, he knew. Meloux would say that there was no part of Grandmother Earth that was without heart, without spirit. The fault lay not with the land but with Cork's expectations, with his own wounded spirit. Listen to the land Meloux would probably advise. The land will reveal its heart. The land will tell you its truth.”
― William Kent Krueger, Heaven's Keep

“The culture of the Old West, if it ever really did exist, had been tamed and replaced by the uniformity of the Walmart–strip mall–McDonald’s homogenizing of America. It was happening in Minnesota, too. Hell, it was happening everywhere in the world.”
― William Kent Krueger, Heaven's Keep

“little insurance in case you’re inclined toward a different destination.” In the Jeep, Cork followed No Voice back up the dirt track to the compound. The Arapaho and his grandson still stood in the shade of the outbuilding. Cork waved as he passed to let them know he bore them no ill will. They didn’t respond, just stood watching as the two vehicles kicked up dust on their way out.”
― William Kent Krueger, Heaven's Keep

“I was sitting at his bedside. Your grandmother was there, too. We watched him go. The doctors who attended him never gave us any hope. Because they were so sure, I didn’t even pray that he wouldn’t die. I just let him go. And you know what? I’ve always regretted that I didn’t pray my heart out trying to keep him with us. I wonder to this day if it might have made a difference.”
― William Kent Krueger, Heaven's Keep

“He was fond of saying that in opening his arms to the earthly love of a woman, he’d found his way back to God, and the happiness had healed him. He was still a man of great spiritual depth—”
― William Kent Krueger, Heaven's Keep

“seemed to Cork that in marrying a man who’d worn a collar, she’d lost none of her faith but gained a very different and human kind of wisdom.”
― William Kent Krueger, Heaven's Keep