Debi Yazbeck

“When the dung beetle moves,” Hosteen Nashibitti had told him, “know that something has moved it. And know that its movement affects the flight of the sparrow, and that the raven deflects the eagle from the sky, and that the eagle’s stiff wing bends the will of the Wind People, and know that all of this affects you and me, and the flea on the prairie dog and the leaf on the cottonwood.” That had always been the point of the lesson. Interdependency of nature. Every cause has its effect. Every action its reaction. A reason for everything. In all things a pattern, and in this pattern, the beauty of harmony. Thus one learned to live with evil, by understanding it, by reading its cause. And thus one learned, gradually and methodically, if one was lucky, to always “go in beauty,” to always look for the pattern, and to find it.”
― Tony Hillerman, Dance Hall of the Dead

“the secret to a successful relationship. One of the secrets. In love as in life, you had to be present.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“Someone once told me that the gambler’s greatest desire, knowledge of the future, would drive us insane.”
― James Lee Burke, The Neon Rain

“violence begets more violence and all violence is a confession of pain. Hurt people tend to hurt people.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed