Quotes by : Paulette Jiles

So they all went home afterwards. My sisters and I sat on the veranda and cried until a storm drove us....

The world was in truth made of jackstraws. The world was very combustible, the human body was partible....

Johanna bent her head far back to look up into the leafy canopy and the rainy sky. There was a cautious....

They rode up the faint marks of the old trace where thousands of sojourners walking and riding both had....

Above and behind them the Dipper turned on its great handle as if to pour night itself out onto the dreaming....

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.

If people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could....

Then took the quilt out of its linen wrapper for the pleasure of the brilliant colors and the feel of....

The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.