B.B. Griffith > Quotes

“Max had long since learned that problems never go away: they just change faces.”
― B.B. Griffith, Blue Fall

“Sometimes when Grant is quiet or moody I ask him what he’s thinking about and he says nothing. What the heck is that? How can you think of nothing? What’s that even like? Is that like what a cow thinks of? What I wouldn’t give to just go into cow mode when I’m up yet again in the middle of the night.”
― B.B. Griffith, The Vanished Series #1-3

“While books infuriated him, Allen Lockton had always shown a lightening quick propensity for logic. Most often this would manifest itself in his remarkable ability to find things.”
― B.B. Griffith, Blue Fall

“They clasp hands, thin and frail like dried flowers, but there is life there”
― B.B. Griffith, Follow the Crow

“Losing your mind doesn’t have to look like the common room in a psych ward. It’s not usually babbling, rocking, wide-eyed lunacy. Sometimes, losing your mind is just that—losing it. Memories are slowly lost to fog. The foundations of your identity—the people and places—fade away, associations lost, history forgotten.”
― B.B. Griffith, The Wind Thief

“You might call it a weariness of the spirit, of the soul. It’s every bit as bad, probably even worse, but it won’t let you go. It holds your eyes open at night. Scares away sleep. Makes you consider every new disaster, every ungodly”
― B.B. Griffith, Child of the Sky

“People say it’s gambling or booze that hit the Navajo hard, but that’s only part of the story. Addiction is what happens when you’re lonely, and my people are getting more and more alone in this world by the day.”
― B.B. Griffith, Child of the Sky

“manages”
― B.B. Griffith, Follow the Crow

“another to speak before doing so herself. But it was getting late, and couriers were always on the clock. To”
― B.B. Griffith, Blue Fall

“The crow stands for spiritual strength, but it’s also a symbol of change. In Navajo stories, the crow is often”
― B.B. Griffith, Follow the Crow

“The point is that we’re not meant to be held together forever. Every part of us is just looking for a chance to break apart, whether it’s an ankle or a brain or a soul.”
― B.B. Griffith, Child of the Sky

“If you ask a Navajo about Coyote, the Coyote of our legends, you’ll get all sorts of answers. Some will tell you he’s funny, some’ll say he’s tricky. Everyone will agree he’s trouble. Coyotes are bad omens. Old-timers say if a coyote crosses your path, turn back. Forget your journey.”
― B.B. Griffith, The Coyote Way

“the”
― B.B. Griffith, The Tournament Trilogy

“I convinced myself that Gam was just telling me stories to keep me in line, to get me to finish my chores or do my homework. That she didn’t actually believe them herself. I was wrong. Gam called these creatures by their Navajo word: at’latai. Kids these days use the English slang: skinwalkers.”
― B.B. Griffith, The Coyote Way

“can”
― B.B. Griffith, Child of the Sky

“When you don’t know the game, you gotta get played a bit until you can figure it out.”
― B.B. Griffith, The Coyote Way

“Well, she called me a lot of things. Flappy, Blackie, Birdie, Dummy, mostly Birdie. When she got lonely and reached for me sometimes she’d call me Ben,” he says quietly. “Or Chaco.”
― B.B. Griffith, The Vanished Series #1-3

“With the anger gone, the fear steps forward again. That’s all anger is—a mask for fear to wear. It has its purpose, but wearing it is tiring,”
― B.B. Griffith, The Wind Thief

“The thing that anchors the chaos end of things is walking free as you please in the world of the living, has been for years now, and it’s eluded all of us.”
― B.B. Griffith, The Vanished Series #1-3

“Fall is the best season in New Mexico. It’s warm and colorful, and it stretches itself like a cat, lingering in the sunny spots as long as it can.”
― B.B. Griffith, The Vanished Series #1-3

“There’s magic out there, but there’s also medicine. And maybe they aren’t so different.”
― B.B. Griffith, The Coyote Way

“Nothing is lost forever,”
― B.B. Griffith, The Wind Thief

“limps”
― B.B. Griffith, The Wind Thief

“It’s also screaming. With every blow the agents rain down upon it, it screams. Not like any animal or human might—not out of fear or anger—but out of pure pain. It hits me like a staggering punch to the gut, worse than any sucker punch I ever felt while I was alive. It’s the ground itself screaming. This is a vein of the stuff that knits together the heart of the living world, and it’s being ripped apart by the agents.”
― B.B. Griffith, Beyond the Veil

“That’s all anger is—a mask for fear to wear.”
― B.B. Griffith, The Wind Thief

“I don’t believe in magic, never have, never will. Nor does Owen, I don’t think. But”
― B.B. Griffith, The Vanished Series #1-3

“In pursuit of old age and happiness I follow the scent of rainfall and approach the place where the lines of rain are darkest.” - Diné Bahaneʼ The Navajo Creation Story (Paul G. Zolbrod, trans.)”
― B.B. Griffith, Child of the Sky

“The lifespan of a soul is written well before its thread is first spun.”
― B.B. Griffith, Beyond the Veil

“the guy sitting right next to me once told me to hold on if you can, because you never know what one more second might bring.”
― B.B. Griffith, The Coyote Way

“when I tell them our recipe is missing something and our cake isn’t gonna rise. So I don’t. Besides, the guy sitting right next to me once told me to hold on if you can, because you never know what one more second might bring.”
― B.B. Griffith, The Vanished Series #1-3