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Purgatory Ridge (Cork O'Connor, #3) QUOTES

Purgatory Ridge (Cork O'Connor, #3) QUOTES

1 " In the absence of proof, you believe. "

― William Kent Krueger , Purgatory Ridge (Cork O'Connor, #3)

2 " 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 (Cork O'Connor, #3)

3 " 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 (Cork O'Connor, #3)

4 " 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 (Cork O'Connor, #3)

5 " And Celia, once she began, talked in a line no straighter than a sloppy drunk could have walked. "

― William Kent Krueger , Purgatory Ridge (Cork O'Connor, #3)

6 " 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 (Cork O'Connor, #3)