Frances Washburn > Quotes

“Belief is like that, a circle, and often I find that the seemingly simplistic explanations from childhood for the unexplainable have merit, maybe more so than all the educated and contrived answers of adulthood.”
― Frances A. Washburn, The Sacred White Turkey

“Elsie can't see the doctor, only a white thing, but she feels every touch of his hands, every cold steel thing that touches her skin like an electric shock. As he touches, the doctor talks, half to Elsie, half to himself with a rough voice.”
― Frances Washburn, Elsie's Business. Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives.

“She is a deer, wounded and run to earth, not dead yet, but waiting for the final shot.”
― Frances Washburn, Elsie's Business. Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives.