Laura

“But Navajos didn’t hurry. In fact, there was no word in the Navajo language for time.”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“Out of all the cells you've been in, your first cell is a very special one, the place where you first encountered others like yourself, doomed to the same fate ... I had been dueling for four days with the interrogator, when the jailer, having waited until I lay down to sleep in the blindingly lit box, began to unlock my door ... I wanted to lie for another three-hundredths of a second with my head on the pillow and pretend I was sleeping. But ... the guard ordered: 'Get up! Pick up your bedding!' ... [B]y the time I arrived, the inhabitants of Cell 67 were already asleep on their metal cots with their hands on top of the blankets. At the sound of the door opening, all three started and raised their heads for an instant ... And those three lifted heads, those three unshaven, crumpled pale faces, seemed to me so human, so dear, that I stood there, hugging my mattress, and smiled with happiness. And they smiled. And what a forgotten look that was - after only one week! 'Are you from freedom?' they asked me.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“My conscience, Sensei, tells me I cannot remain forever an artist of the floating world.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

“The white man sees the desolation and calls it a desert, McKee thought, but the Navajo name for it means “Beautiful Valley.”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way