“As animals subject to the laws of earth, we think time is experience. But time is more a substance, like air, only of course not air. It is in fact a holy element.”
― The Night Watchman
― The Night Watchman
“You know any Mormons?" asked Martin Cross
"I don't think so."
"They haven't got to you. They'll come around yet. It's in their religion to change Indians into whites."
"I thought that was a government job.”
― The Night Watchman
"I don't think so."
"They haven't got to you. They'll come around yet. It's in their religion to change Indians into whites."
"I thought that was a government job.”
― The Night Watchman
“Juggie Blue: We don’t want to leave our homes We are poor, but even poor people can love their land. You do not need money to love your home.”
― The Night Watchman
― The Night Watchman
“one explanation did not rule out the other, that charged electrons could be spirits, that nothing ruled out anything else, that mathematics was a rigorous form of madness,”
― The Night Watchman
― The Night Watchman
“Everything ceased. She listened hard. Nothing, nothing, nothing. But she could feel the calm breathing of the night. She put on her mother’s mitts, took the ax, stepped out the door. Outside, there was resounding silence. The black sky was a poem beyond meaning.”
― The Night Watchman
― The Night Watchman
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