Caleb

“He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up...knees from buckling...hands from letting go of the blanket.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Gardens in the Dunes

“the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Gardens in the Dunes

“The white man hated to hear anything about spirits because spirits were already dead and could not be tortured and butchered or shot, the only way the white man knew how to deal with the world. Spirits were immune to the white man's threat...s and to his bribes of money and food. The white man only knew one way to control himself or others and that was with brute force.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko