Barb Edwards

“She wondered sometimes how he stood the constant criticism. "Love," Mr. Llewellyn had said when she ventured as much to him. "We do not always have a choice in where and how and whom, and love gives us the courage to withstand that which we never thought we could.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“t on the roads we walk we walk alone. Which is never true. Even this man who is unknown to us was known to God and God was his constant companion. 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.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

“She hung up and the room was a fist of silence.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

“I think Kitchimanidoo is not the Creator but the possibility of creation, all creation, good and bad.”
― William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle