Alex

“Is this why a parent’s death is so devastating? That of all the witnesses lined up in your life, losing a parent is losing the biggest one, the one who drummed you up out of nowhere and saw you, and saw you, and saw you?”
― Ben Shattuck, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

“Time, like masks, could make us reclaim the best of who we were and purge the worst of what we’d become. Ever faced the mask, faced his fears, and I hoped the mask healed him the way it once healed all Cherokees.”
― Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

“I would never want to bypass those sleepless nights and anxiety because of this fact: that the stars had not changed, the river had not changed, the marsh had not changed. As in, the world around me was always there and waiting to be seen again when I was ready, and when I was ready, it looked only beautiful.”
― Ben Shattuck, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

“Maybe I was trying to create a memory, something I could hold on to after they left, or maybe I was trying to create a memory for them, something they could hold on to after I left.”
― Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance