Sue Harrison > Quotes

“I gathered his words like an old woman who picks up spilled beads, and his slowness gave me opportunity to consider the light and color and life in each.”
― Sue Harrison, Call Down the Stars

“How better to show your respect for another person’s thoughts than by silence? Is it polite to cover those thoughts with your own ideas? What is polite about that?”
― Sue Harrison, Song of the River

“Sometimes when you try too hard,” Aqamdax explained, “things get tangled, and the only way to untangle them is to let go.”
― Sue Harrison, Call Down the Stars

“For you, perhaps, it will take more strength to belong to someone.”
― Sue Harrison, Mother Earth, Father Sky

“a man’s power is not only what he knows it to be, but also what others think it to be.”
― Sue Harrison, My Sister the Moon

“loud: for a son who was a hunter, for a daughter who would look after her parents when they were old, for an easy birth. The animals knew the goodness of that place. Caribou, lynx, bear came to drink. Muskrats made their lodges along the banks of the outlet rivers that flowed to the North Sea. In summers there were birds—mergansers, grebes, loons. In winter, the lake was a fine place to catch blackfish,”
― Sue Harrison, The Storyteller Trilogy: Song of the River, Cry of the Wind, and Call Down the Stars

“sorrow not only twists the heart, but also dims the eyes. Only the very wise can see good in the earth when they are grieving.”
― Sue Harrison, Brother Wind

“Si no hablamos del mal, ¿cómo comprenderemos qué es el bien?”
― Sue Harrison, Call Down the Stars

“dripped”
― Sue Harrison, Mother Earth, Father Sky

“A veces los hombres somos necios y tomamos lo que no queremos porque pensamos que no podemos tener lo que deseamos.”
― Sue Harrison, Call Down the Stars

“El honor significa una cosa para un hombre, y otra distinta para otro.”
― Sue Harrison, Song of the River

“For what is storytelling if not ideas brought full and whole to the inner eyes of those who listen?”
― Sue Harrison, Song of the River

“Who can explain the difference between something chosen by the mind and something decided by the heart? Words are not kelp string. They cannot bind pain into neat packs to be stored away like food in a cache.”
― Sue Harrison, Brother Wind

“Before, when I closed my eyes, there was either darkness or dreams,” he said. “Now there is light. Hold to life, Chagak, but do not fear death.”
― Sue Harrison, Mother Earth, Father Sky

“—¿Qué narrador no quiere oír historias nuevas? Las viejas nos consuelan y las nuevas nos enseñan. Necesitamos tanto las unas como las otras. Me parece que hay algo que no has comprendido. Tú y yo somos narradores y escuchamos para aprender. La gente sólo presta atención para vivir las historias. Tus relatos sobre K'os son buenos, pero ¿quién desea convertirse en K'os? ¿Te gustaría a ti ser ella?”
― Sue Harrison, Call Down the Stars

“A man is what he himself does, what he thinks, what he learns, his own skills.”
― Sue Harrison, My Sister the Moon

“Era una suerte que la muerte no le hubiese arrebatado la sabiduría del anciano.”
― Sue Harrison, Call Down the Stars

“Be like this cup. Hold much, give much, and become rich with what is within you.”
― Sue Harrison, Cry of the Wind

“Había aprendido a no confiar demasiado en las afirmaciones de los demás, sobre todo si sus palabras les reportaban algún beneficio.”
― Sue Harrison, Call Down the Stars

“Los que disfrutan pateando perros, siempre encontrarán perros que patear.”
― Sue Harrison, Song of the River

“man has two choices. He can quit and wait to die, or he can sing.”
― Sue Harrison, Call Down the Stars

“It is better to know than to be caught between hope and fear.”
― Sue Harrison, Brother Wind

“Mi niña tendrá dificultades en la vida, pero es lo que ocurre con los dones. Si nos los entregaran fácilmente, no nos esforzaríamos por encontrar la mejor manera de servirnos de ellos.”
― Sue Harrison, Call Down the Stars

“Según el punto en que el narrador decide callar las historias tienen un final feliz o triste.”
― Sue Harrison, Call Down the Stars

“Le habría gustado ser uno de esos árboles, con los brazos extendidos hacia el cielo y los pies hundidos en la tierra. Pero sólo era una mujer, demasiado pequeña para llegar al sol.”
― Sue Harrison, Cry of the Wind

“En cuanto alguien sabe qué cosas te importan, también sabe cómo herirte.”
― Sue Harrison, Song of the River