Caleb

“Josiah said that only humans had to endure anything, because only humans resisted what they saw outside themselves. Animals did not resist. But they persisted, because they became part of the wind. (...) So they moved with the snow, became part of the snowstorm which drifted up against the trees and fences. And when they died, frozen solid against a fence, with the snow drifted around their heads? "Ah, Tayo," Josiah said, "the wind convinced them they were the ice.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“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

“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

“Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony