Win Blevins > Quotes

“None of them are willing to see themselves or others simply as what they are. All is colored with myth, with the ideal. Everyone is a figure in a cosmic drama—an imaginary drama.”
― Win Blevins, Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams

“Only by going on an untrod path, by making your own path, by being your singular self, can anyone find his own grail. In”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“Intuition? Yes, from experience I can say that’s a kind of knowing that has no rationale, but just rises up your body, your mind, your whole being and lets you know.”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“Half a life ago I was one man, and am now another. Where once I paid attention to my head, I now follow my heart. Where I once I strove for achievement, I now seek to give and receive love. Though I still want to earn a living, my writing now is entirely born in love and offered as love. I”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“A man does not sell the earth the people walk on.” That”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“No Water made her want to be taken, which was exciting and frightening. Crazy Horse made her want to give, which was fulfilling. She”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“But these were only things. In return for them the wasicu wanted you to relinquish your own genius, which was not of things but of the spirit. From”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“if they watched the soldiers and opposed them everywhere, the whites could do nothing.”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“It was astonishing, the visitors said, the way all the white men worked together and set up the road so quickly, each man like a limb of a hundred-legged bug, each doing just what was needed at the right moment. A small thing for each man, but when it was done right, the bug scooted fast. Crazy”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“Did Curly have a right, however weak or strong his vision might have been, to keep it secret? To not live it? Did not all the people own the strength in it?                                                            *”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“The whole meadow was squishy with water and violet with flowers. “They’re camas, a kind of lily, and you can eat the bulb.” Mother, daughter, and Jay spread out, holding sacks to fill. “Only the violet ones,” said Julia. “The ones with the white flowers, that’s the death camas.”
― Win Blevins, Rendezvous Series Books

“Mitakuye oyasin—we are all related. So”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“what we must do concerning the Frenchman, who now comes as many as the locusts—who drinks the water, burns the wood, and kills the buffalo of our hunting grounds, so that the Shoshone people may one day have not enough to eat.”
― Win Blevins, Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams

“The North American Indian, regarded as “backward,” has a life that makes sustenance, responsibility for oneself, and dignity possible. These backward people have no hint of the worthiness of their own persons.”
― Win Blevins, Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams

“You might fight your enemy—that had respect in it. You might even kill him—respect again. But to do what the wasicu did: afflict your enemy with disease, pen him up, starve him, and then rescue his body on the condition that he surrender his spirit”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“What good is a white man if you can’t have a little fun with him? “At”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“nothing was more peculiar about the whites than the way they were always refusing responsibility by saying they were following orders.”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“the U.S. government this very summer was sending an army against the Mormons at the big salty lake to make the Mormons live like the other wasicu, especially not to take more than one wife. Incomprehensible. “They”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“heart. As he looked around at the agency Indians, dependent, destitute, spiritless, it was clearer than ever that an agency offered no life to him and no prospect for the return of Hawk. The people might be able to live here, he didn’t know. Hawk would never come to him here, and he would die. And until his death, live gutted of spirit. He walked his pony and felt in its hooves the pulse of the drum, tapping the earth.”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“It’s not death people are afraid of. It’s life.”
― Win Blevins, Shadows in the Cave

“Everything was askew—this whole time on earth, his time for being alive, was aberrant. Three”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“Among the whites some think they can see and choose for others.”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“To be defeated by superior numbers, that was only physical. To give up your spirit, that truly would be death. He”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“General Crook had said when a reporter asked him what was the hardest thing about fighting Indians. Replied Three Stars, “Knowing you’re wrong.” Lieutenant”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“and barred windows. He”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“The need to break her, to make her move to the touch of his harness, pumped through him like hot blood and bile. No”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“when you drank, you lost control of your spirit. You had no power and no connection to Power.”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“a flagstone path curved into the darkness of space toward… who knows where? I knew—that’s knew—I had to follow that path.”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“The white men have ways of doing you favors that can get you killed.” Crazy”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“cut a piece of moist skin from a dead horse, and tied it tightly over the wound. Curly”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse