Sarah Canary
Karen Joy Fowler
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.”
“Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.”
“He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.”
“Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.”
“A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.”
“Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.”
“The Indians did not like to see anything odd -- a white squirrel, for instance. . . . They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil. . . . And the Indians put a great deal of faith in dreams.”
“You’d think he was a saint,” Miss Dixon said. “The way people talk about him. We love dead people. As soon as they die, we start loving them.” “Not all of them,” said B.J. Miss Dixon looked at him. “Oh, well,” she agreed. “Some people are never dead enough.”
“The white culture rewarded cruelty with honor and friendship.”
“He kept his eyes down. He was hiding nothing, but the truth is no servant to man. You can’t make someone believe you just by telling the truth any more than you can make the truth false just by not believing it.”
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waterfall, dreams, forest, fire, truth, trees, story, owl, music, bird, omens, totems, may, june, madness, song, january, immortality, water-ousel, cuckoo
