The River We Remember Quotes
"When they could legitimately give themselves permission to relax and enjoy life, they did a pretty fair job of it."
"The people of Black Earth County were mostly farmers, sensible, hardworking folks."
"What had come by the end of May was the smell of promise."
"Jewel had always called itself 'The Gem of the Prairie.'"
"If you came from the city, you’d probably have thought of it as sleepy."
"The veterans were at the center of the parade, Gunther Haas among them."
"In those days, Jewel’s population hovered around four thousand."
"Felix wasn’t the kind of man who needed much oversight."
"But get him off the bottle and Felix was a man who could carry his own in an intelligent conversation."
"Hector, Brody’s golden retriever, lay on the floor not far from the men."
"The sheriff was thirty-five years old, tall and lean."
"Brody was a man who’d seen things in war that had inured him to the shock of normal emergencies."
"Jimmy Quinn’s death was a once in a lifetime event."
"On his father’s death, James Patrick Quinn had inherited a thousand acres."
"The Quinn farm was seven miles south of Jewel, along the banks of the Alabaster River."
"The Fordham Ridge was a long, worming uprise that caused the river to almost reverse itself."
"The Browns had not always been Browns. Until World War I, they’d been Brauns."
"When Connie offered me the job as his deputy, I thought that maybe with a badge..."
"I remember a night in Belleau Wood... Kid stands up and the Jerry’s lying there with his belly open and his guts spilling out."
"Any hope of a peaceful life for you in Black Earth County was blown to smithereens with that shotgun blast."
"You screw this up, Dern, I’ll see that you never wear a badge again."
"Jimmy should have spent more time at the Wagon Wheel. Who could ever feel alone with you around?"
"I’m thinking that it would be best to let cooler heads work out the truth of your father’s death."
"Life’ll be hard going forward without him, but in others, it will be a profound relief."
"I’ve always liked Marta. I never liked her husband one bit."
"I don’t know enough to say how it was that Jimmy died."
"It's just about the sweetest thing I've ever heard, Felix. Of course, I'll give Scott the medal. It will mean a great deal to him, I'm sure."
"That’s what he said. I didn’t know Mr. Quinn, really, but I’ve never heard anybody say anything like that about him."
"The honest to God truth is that I got tired and I got lonely. When you’re tired and lonely, home’s a good place to head for."
"I think absolutely that if you can get Kyoko to open up to you, you’ll find out the reason, and it’ll be one that might fill a jury’s heart with forgiveness."
"My father, in his note, asked me to say nothing to you about James Quinn’s death."
"Forgive me," she said. "There’s much work to be done."
"I write this by moonlight. The memory of what you did is still with me, and always will be."
"You breathed life back into me, and I don’t mean just the air that you filled my lungs with."
"I don’t know how it will happen, but I want to see you again. I have to see you again."
"I’ll bet you could get to second or maybe even third base with her now, Madman."
"All right," he said. "But it’ll have to be after the lunch rush."
"You are good at farming. You could be Japanese."
"When money’s involved, Kyoko, everybody lies."
"Doesn’t matter," he said. "Can’t change the past."
"You’ve got to go, girl. You’ve got to leave this place."
"He deserves to know. But if it came from me, it wouldn’t do Brody or me any good."
"We’re all broken. I’ve heard you say it a hundred times."
"Only days after I left, my parents were arrested."
"It's wherever you are when you die. The place takes you in, all that energy, all that life."
"That son of a bitch Creasy set fire to the barn, Brody."
"Everyone okay?" he asked. "We're fine," Charlie said.
"Creasy?" "He's still in the barn," J.P. said.
"We couldn’t see the back of the barn," J.P. said.
"He threatened to get back at the people in this county he had a grudge against," Brody said.
"I think the man came to the end he wanted. Maybe deserved."
"Does it matter, Charlie?" Graff said. "His misery’s over, and the misery he caused."
"That’s okay, Madman. You go ahead. I’ll gather some firewood."
"I’m not going back. They’ll make me take that fuggin’ bus to Saint Paul. I’m not leaving until I find Creasy, or someone has."
"Tyler Creasy!" he shouted. "Come out now with your hands up!"