Vicki Porell

“A woodenness came over her. A Kiowa’s first and last resort was courage. A Kiowa did not beg or plead or appease. She knew at the bitter end she could starve away the despair, deny any sustenance to surrender. She wiped her face again and climbed up into the wagon. Ausay gya kii, gyao boi tol.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“She wasn’t afraid to be wrong. And that, the Chief knew, was a great strength.”
― Louise Penny, A Trick of the Light

“At the age he had attained with his life span short before him he had begun to look upon the human world with the indifference of a condemned man.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World