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Paulette Jiles Quote: “In case of attack, this completely inadequate load of bird shot will make a loud noise, if nothing else.”

51. “In case of attack, this completely inadequate load of bird shot will make a loud noise, if nothing else.”

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Paulette Jiles Quote: “They are our great mystery. They are America’s great otherwise. People fall back in the face of an impenetrable mystery and refuse it. Yes, they take captives. Sometimes they kill women and old people. But the settlers are people who shouldn’t be where they are in the first place and they know it and they take their chances.”

52. “They are our great mystery. They are America’s great otherwise. People fall back in the face of an impenetrable mystery and refuse it. Yes, they take captives. Sometimes they kill women and old people. But the settlers are people who shouldn’t be where they are in the first place and they know it and they take their chances.”

— Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles Quote: “The Captain stepped into the stirrup and was proud of the fact that at age seventy-one he could step up from the ground onto a sixteen-hand horse. With some pain but no flinching he swung into the saddle.”

53. “The Captain stepped into the stirrup and was proud of the fact that at age seventy-one he could step up from the ground onto a sixteen-hand horse. With some pain but no flinching he swung into the saddle.”

— Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles Quote: “Raiding parties of young men had their own laws and their own universe in which the niceties of civilized warfare did not count and an old man and a young girl were fair game to them, for in the Indian Wars there were no civilians.”

54. “Raiding parties of young men had their own laws and their own universe in which the niceties of civilized warfare did not count and an old man and a young girl were fair game to them, for in the Indian Wars there were no civilians.”

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Paulette Jiles Quote: “You never knew. Cultures were mine fields.”

55. “You never knew. Cultures were mine fields.”

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Paulette Jiles Quote: “And the newspapers, they say nothing about this at all or about the poor at all, Doris said. There are great holes in your newspapers. Nobody sees them. God sees them. The.”

56. “And the newspapers, they say nothing about this at all or about the poor at all, Doris said. There are great holes in your newspapers. Nobody sees them. God sees them. The.”

— Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles Quote: “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.”

57. “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.”

— Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles Quote: “People did not really understand who they were until they had been tested, and then came the terrible surprise that they did not know who this new person was either.”

58. “People did not really understand who they were until they had been tested, and then came the terrible surprise that they did not know who this new person was either.”

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Paulette Jiles Quote: “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.”

59. “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.”

— Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles Quote: “It was now the second week in March and the time of tender growth, when it slowly dawned on people that the world would not always be cold and brown. This high-level country was like something unexpectedly and suddenly loved and responding to the bounty of young rain and long hours of sunlight. Awake, awake, ye drowsy sleeper.”

60. “It was now the second week in March and the time of tender growth, when it slowly dawned on people that the world would not always be cold and brown. This high-level country was like something unexpectedly and suddenly loved and responding to the bounty of young rain and long hours of sunlight. Awake, awake, ye drowsy sleeper.”

— Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles Quote: “But still he objected. He was an old man. A cranky old man. I raised two of them already. A celestial voice said, Well then, do it again.”

61. “But still he objected. He was an old man. A cranky old man. I raised two of them already. A celestial voice said, Well then, do it again.”

— Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles Quote: “To go through our first creation is a turning of the soul we hope toward the light, out of the animal world. God be with us. To go through another tears all the making of the first creation and sometimes it falls to bits. We fall into pieces. She is asking, Where is that rock of my creation?”

62. “To go through our first creation is a turning of the soul we hope toward the light, out of the animal world. God be with us. To go through another tears all the making of the first creation and sometimes it falls to bits. We fall into pieces. She is asking, Where is that rock of my creation?”

— Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles Quote: “They were all too young to die and always would be.”

63. “They were all too young to die and always would be.”

— Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles Quote: “They were all odd, the returned captives. All peculiar with minds oddly formed, never quite one thing or another. As Doris had said back in Spanish Fort, all those captured as children and returned were restless and hungry for some spiritual solace, abandoned by two cultures, dark shooting stars lost in the outer heavens.”

64. “They were all odd, the returned captives. All peculiar with minds oddly formed, never quite one thing or another. As Doris had said back in Spanish Fort, all those captured as children and returned were restless and hungry for some spiritual solace, abandoned by two cultures, dark shooting stars lost in the outer heavens.”

— Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles Quote: “Lascaux was in my time-stream, my ancestry, and Lascaux was the joy and the transport of stories. That’s what lasts. It has lasted thirty thousand years.”

65. “Lascaux was in my time-stream, my ancestry, and Lascaux was the joy and the transport of stories. That’s what lasts. It has lasted thirty thousand years.”

— Paulette Jiles

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