68 Quotes by Paulette Jiles

He turned the page. He said, This is writing. This is printing. This tells us of all the things we ought to know in the world.

No matter what side you were on, if you had survived Gettysburg you were to be congratulated.

Falls. He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works. THAT.

He made a list: feed, flour, ammunition, soap, beef, candles, faith, hope, charity.

Americans are not comfortable with tragedy. Because of its insolubility. Tragedy is not amenable to reason and we are fixers, aren’t we? We can fix everything.

Haain-a? No. Absolutely not. No. No scalping. He lifted her up and swung her up over the ledges of stone and then followed. He said, It is considered very impolite.

No, seventy-two. He had just turned seventy-two on March 15, yesterday, as he had turned sixteen just before Horseshoe Bend and at that time it would have been beyond belief that he would even live to see this age, much less be traveling along a distant road far to the west, still in one piece, alive and unaccountably happy.

Time seems to have been sweeping ahead very fast these last years. How many years I worried about you and also delighted in your company. And now it is time for me to give you away.

Young people could get away with rough clothing but unless the elderly dressed with care they looked like homeless vagabonds.