Keekee Smith

“Ghost Dancers Rise: At the 500th anniversary of Columbus's landing, tribal leaders gathered in Washington, DC, for a ceremony in front of the Capitol. They could have dwelt on the catastrophes that were Columbus's legacy, but instead they closed the ceremony with these words:

We stand young warriors
In the circle
At dawn all storm clouds disappear
The future brings all hope and glory,
Ghost dancers rise
Five-hundred years.”
― Eldon Yellowhorn, Kathy Lowinger

“Marriage is made of a million beautiful and ugly moments stitched together into a shared tapestry of memories, all of which are viewed and remembered slightly differently, like two people staring at the same painting from opposite ends of a room.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
― Lord Byron

“Elinor Loredan: But I just adore everything Persian.
Meggie Folchart: You've been to Persia, then?
Elinor: Yes, a hundred times. Along with St. Petersburg, Paris, Middle-Earth, distant planets and Shangri-la. And I never had to leave this room. Books are adventure. They contain murder and mayhem and passion. They love anyone who opens them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart