Leslie Marmon Silko - Time Quotes

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Jungle rain had no beginning or end; it grew like foliage from the sky, branching and arching to the earth, sometimes in solid thickets entangling the islands, and, other times, in tendrils of blue mist curling out of coastal clouds. The jungle breathed an eternal green that fevered men until they dripped sweat the way rubbery jungle leaves dripped the monsoon rain.

Leslie Marmon Silko

For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.

Leslie Marmon Silko

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

Leslie Marmon Silko

It's only a matter of time, Indian
you can't sleep with the river forever.

Leslie Marmon Silko