Leslie Marmon Silko - Person Quotes

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Relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end.... You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.

Leslie Marmon Silko

When someone dies, you don't 'get over it' by forgetting; you 'get over it' by remembering, and by remembering you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our lives and loved us, as we have loved them.

Leslie Marmon Silko

Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there was a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions-exactly which way to go and what to do to get there; it depended on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone.

Leslie Marmon Silko

Anybody can act violently — there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

Leslie Marmon Silko