Krueger Quotes & Sayings

Heavenly Father, for the blessings of this food and these friends and our families, we thank you. In Jesus's name, amen. — William Kent Krueger

I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food". — Carla H. Krueger

down. He realized he hadn't taken a single sip. — William Kent Krueger

When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law. — Carla H. Krueger

We could have touched the stars. Instead, you brought them to us. We didn't have to seek the heavens when we had you here with us now. — Jim Krueger

No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared. — Lana Parrilla

Michael Koryta isn't just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He's simply one of today's finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best. — William Kent Krueger

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities. — Carla H. Krueger

Oh the secrets of the night. — William Kent Krueger

I was a huge Sub-Zero guy, but the fact that you can download Freddy Krueger is the coolest thing I've heard of in a very long time. — CM Punk

What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve. — William Kent Krueger

The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air. — William Kent Krueger

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing. — Carla H. Krueger

Someday, I'll gain telepathic powers like every other regular movie ghost and I will go all Freddie Krueger on his bony, little, rat arse!"
I rolled my eyes, but kept marching down the street.
"Then I'd have to go all Ghostbusters on yours.", I tried to keep my voice low to keep from drawing attention to myself.
"No, you wouldn't. You love my arse, darling!", he walked backwards few feet in front of me.
His big smile was enough to make me grin and roll my eyes again at him. — Tia Artemis

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down. — Carla H. Krueger

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can. — Carla H. Krueger

Dutch in my ear, Olde E in my palm,
I Freddy Krueger your face, Michael Myers your moms.
You botherin mine? That's when I'm sparkin the nine. — Sean Price

The things that ask the most of us are the things most worth having. — William Kent Krueger

Funerals weren't just about the dead. They were about the dead leaving this world to reside with God, someone Mother wasn't seeing eye to eye with at the moment, if she ever had, and I couldn't shake the concern that in the middle of the service she would spring from her pew and find some way to spite him. — William Kent Krueger

Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories. — Carla H. Krueger

I'm in love with Ariana Grande - she's got a very curious personality; I hear she loves Freddy Krueger, and I love Freddy Krueger, which makes me feel like we'd be perfect for each other. — Ariel Pink

The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome. — Carla H. Krueger

When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write. — Carla H. Krueger

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever. — Carla H. Krueger

I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off. — Carla H. Krueger

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere. — Carla H. Krueger

People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get. — Carla H. Krueger

He was no stranger to brutal death. Both as sheriff and as a cop on Chicago's south side, he'd seen his share of dying. Murder, accident, overdose - it happened in many ways, but the end was the same. Something sad and confusing left behind. Only the shape of life, only the empty outline. — William Kent Krueger

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time. — William Kent Krueger

There was no point in looking again. He [Cork] knew that. No point except to feed the coldness inside him. In a strange way, that was exactly what he wanted now. He wanted to feed himself to the cold until the cold had consumed him and he didn't care anymore. — William Kent Krueger

Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves. — Carla H. Krueger

What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away. — Nick Saban

We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives. — Carla H. Krueger

I will tell you what's left, three profound blessings. In his first letter to the Corinthians, Saint Paul tells us exactly what they are: faith, hope, and love,. These gifts, which are the foundation of eternity, God has given to us and he's given us complete control over them. Even in the darkest night it's still within our power to hold faith. We can still embrace hope. And although we may feel ourselves unloved we can still stand steadfast in our love for others and for God. All this is in our control. God gave us these gifts and he does not take them back. It is we who chooses to discard them. — William Kent Krueger

At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful. — William Kent Krueger

Today. Not a long walk but a real one. Stephen thinks he'll — William Kent Krueger

Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood. — William Kent Krueger

Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination. — Carla H. Krueger

What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question ... What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

Bobby had a secret. You know what it was? It took nothing to make him happy. That was it. He held happiness in his hand easy as if he'd just, I don't know, plucked a blade of grass form the ground. And all he did his whole short life was offer that happiness to anybody who'd smile at him. That's all he wanted form me. From you. From anybody. A smile. — William Kent Krueger

I'll be your friend until you find a better one. — Carla H. Krueger

She hung up and the room was a fist of silence. page 233 — William Kent Krueger

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong. — William Kent Krueger

Word is you heard the Windigo too."
I did. The difference is I'm ready for the son of a bitch."
Cork O'Connor — William Kent Krueger

As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the disfigurement that fire can cause on people, because they were the source material for some of the prosthetic makeup that I wore. That aided and abetted this fear of death by fire. Which is sort of what happened to Fred Krueger. — Robert Englund

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means. — Carla H. Krueger

I've always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times. — Carla H. Krueger

Sam's Place had never felt so empty. He suspected the emptiness was not in the old Quonset hut; it was in him. There was nothing in him now, nothing but the great emptiness of death, which he seemed to carry with him like a virus. — William Kent Krueger

Roses are the fast food of flowers. — Paul Krueger

It's much harder to twist the charitable arm of a lottery winner compared to that of a man at his lowest ebb. It sounds like the wrong way round at first, but when you really put your nut to it, people are more frightened of losing the big shit than of having fuck all to begin with and losing a bit of that. — Carla H. Krueger

Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page. — William Kent Krueger

Haven't you seen that part of me as well? A man's many things. To isolate one part of him and judge him on that alone is to do him an injustice, don't you think? — William Kent Krueger

If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner. — Carla H. Krueger

They're never far from us, you know." "Who?" I asked. "The dead. No more'n a breath. You let that last one go and you're with them again. — William Kent Krueger

Reading a book that challenges you is the best way to practice facing real-world fears. — Carla H. Krueger

A few machines dance in the air, an orderly has to be sedated, and suddenly you're Freddy freakin' Krueger. — Jennifer Harlow

You're my prey tonight. — Carla H. Krueger

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past. — Carla H. Krueger

Me, I was growing up scrambling for meaning and I was full of confusion and fear. — William Kent Krueger

I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways. — Carla H. Krueger

No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field. — Carla H. Krueger

Behavioral economics tells us that people often focus too much on the wrong things, and tend to focus on aspects of the job that are salient. So, for example, the pay is salient, especially the starting pay. — Alan Krueger

Few things were so sure and simple that they could be taken at face value. — William Kent Krueger

It's hard to stop people comparing their world with the world they imagine you to have. — Carla H. Krueger

To cut a long story short, I'm a writer. — Carla H. Krueger

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer. — Carla H. Krueger

Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets. — Carla H. Krueger

Eddie now?" Larson asked. "Maybe she waited until — William Kent Krueger

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't. — Carla H. Krueger

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in. — William Kent Krueger

I don't know any real billionaires. — William Kent Krueger

God never promised us an easy life. He never promised that we wouldn't suffer, that we wouldn't feel despair and loneliness and confusion and desperation. What he did promise was that in our suffering we would never be alone. And though we may sometimes make ourselves blind and deaf to his presence he is beside us and around us and within us always. We are never separated from his love. And he promised us something else, the most important promise of all. That there would be surcease. That there would be an end to our pain and our suffering and our loneliness, that we would be with him and know him, and this would be heaven. — William Kent Krueger

Grief doesn't come in the moment of loss. It comes in the quiet of the aftermath. — William Kent Krueger

Although I'd had no trouble looking at the casket the day before, on that Saturday I did my best to keep my eyes averted. I stared instead at the stained-glass window behind the altar and imagined shooting the panes out with a slingshot. — William Kent Krueger

She is intent on pleasing the men that frighten her. — Carla H. Krueger

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different. — Carla H. Krueger

Returning to the Brandt home but I agreed to give a hand. We arrived after lunch and found Lise at work loading a wheelbarrow with the smaller stones from the huge pile beside the shed. The flower bed itself was in the middle of the yard, positioned in a sunny area between deep pools of shade that lay beneath a couple of tall hackberry trees. — William Kent Krueger

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope. — Carla H. Krueger

Books are readable drugs. — Carla H. Krueger

Fear spread through the house. — Carla H. Krueger

It was time for Cork to return to the bed in the guest room. But he lingered beside this son who trusted him lay awake knowing there were monsters in the wind outside, that his son's fear was not unjustified, and that Stevie would have to face them alone someday. There were people out there so cruel they would wound him for the pleasure of it, dreadful circumstances no man in his worst imaginings could conjure, disappointments so overwhelming they could crush his dreams like eggshells. For a child like Stevie, a child of special graces, there would be such pain that Cork nearly wept in anticipation of it. Against those monsters, a father was powerless. But again the simple terrors of the night, he would do his best. — William Kent Krueger

An invaluable little book ... What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism ... Krueger finds one familiar fact in all his numbers. Countries with fewer civil liberties tend to produce more terrorists. — Daniel Finkelstein

She was used to dealing with worry by sinking herself completely into the facts of a situation. Her strength lay in her ability to scrutinize circumstances from every angle and to anticipate the moves of an opponent. But she didn't have facts and she didn't know her opponent, and all she was left with was the worry. — William Kent Krueger

Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise. — Carla H. Krueger

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it. — Carla H. Krueger

God makes His presence known in many ways. In acts of love, in selfless acts of courage, in everyday human compassion. — William Kent Krueger

I know from my studies and from my life is that there is no such thing as a true event. We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed. Take — William Kent Krueger

I want to believe him. I know stuff happens to people and they can't always be who they were or who they think they're supposed to be. But knowing that doesn't mean I'm okay with it. It's more like what Mr. Krueger says about black holes: We can't wish them away, so we'd better learn as much as we can about where they are and how they work so we don't get sucked in. — R. Dean Johnson

On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The moon was always harder to spot and more faded, but it was there if you looked, as many things were. — Carla H. Krueger

Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies. — Charlie Krueger

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all. — William Kent Krueger

Youngsters deserve no opinions. — Carla H. Krueger

I've come to understand that there's a good deal of value in the ritual accompanying death. It's hard to say good- bye and almost impossible to accomplish this alone and ritual is the railing we hold to, all of us together, that keeps us upright and connected until the worst is past. — William Kent Krueger

You are the light. The darkness will always try to snuff you out. — William Kent Krueger

I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science fiction TV series and then the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' phenomenon - was that I got an international celebrity out of it. — Robert Englund

Scary movies are my favorite. My kids love Hocus Pocus. I'm a big fan of Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp and Freddy Krueger. — Andre Dirrell

I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did. — Carla H. Krueger

If it was true, as Henry Meloux said, that he'd heard the Windigo call his name, he understood why now. Because it felt exactly as if his heart had just been torn out of him and devoured. — William Kent Krueger

Author says that, while Eisenhower had other intellectual mentors, he learned how to lead men from Gen. Walter Krueger. Krueger was the first American enlisted man to rise to four-star general, and he so identified with those he led that he once invited a sentry out of the rain and gave him his own dry uniform. — Jean Edward Smith

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not? — William Kent Krueger