“A thin watery sun laid its gunmetal shine on the country below.” — Paulette Jiles Moon Copy Share Image
“He made a list: feed, flour, ammunition, soap, beef, candles, faith, hope, charity.” — Paulette Jiles Faith hope Copy Share Image
“she is like an elf. She is like a fairy person from the glamorie. They are not one thing or another.” — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
“At the age he had attained with his life span short before him he had begun to look upon the human world… — Paulette Jiles Indifference Copy Share Image
“He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the… — Paulette Jiles Comedy Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him she understood but was not willing to concede they might be on the same side against anyone or… — Paulette Jiles Concede Copy Share Image
“He wrote down, in a neat list, all the obligations of a sergeant because written information was what mattered in this world,” — Paulette Jiles Sergeant Copy Share Image
“And the newspapers, they say nothing about this at all or about the poor at all, Doris said. There are great holes… — Paulette Jiles Poor Doris Copy Share Image
“This is writing. This is printing. This tells us of all the things we ought to know in the world. And also… — Paulette Jiles Printing Copy Share Image
“They are mentally not very fast. They are every one of them one brick short of a load.” — Paulette Jiles Mentally Copy Share Image
“as they drifted they had gathered trouble and a great deal of peculiar knowledge about human beings, what human beings would do… — Paulette Jiles Beings Say Copy Share Image
“Maybe life is just carrying news. Surviving to carry the news. Maybe we have just one message, and it is delivered to… — Paulette Jiles Life Copy Share Image
“Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to Malaysia, a terrible blow to… — Paulette Jiles Religion Copy Share Image
“In the famine children saw their parents die and then went to live with the people on the other side. In their… — Paulette Jiles Children Copy Share Image
And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately… — Paulette Jiles Arteries Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was something like this that changed the captive children forever; the violence they had endured when they were captured, their… — Paulette Jiles Children Copy Share Image
“Outside, as she passed the kitchen window, she watched her breath appear before her in the lamplight and then it died away… — Paulette Jiles Breath Copy Share Image
“people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator… — Paulette Jiles True knowledge Copy Share Image
“A Kiowa’s first and last resort was courage. A Kiowa did not beg or plead or appease. She knew at the bitter… — Paulette Jiles Courage Copy Share Image
“The baking wind tore at his hat and he held it by the brim with one hand. It relieved him to look… — Paulette Jiles Baton rouge Copy Share Image
“She never learned to value those things that white people valued. The greatest pride of the Kiowa was to do without, to… — Paulette Jiles Bank account Copy Share Image
“So they all went home afterwards. My sisters and I sat on the veranda and cried until a storm drove us inside.… — Paulette Jiles Childhood Copy Share Image
Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in… — Paulette Jiles Animal Copy Share Image
“The world was in truth made of jackstraws. The world was very combustible, the human body was partible in ways heretofore unimagined.… — Paulette Jiles Black hole Copy Share Image
“there is no substitute for walking in the landscape itself, or turning over dusty old pages in the archives of San Antonio.” — Paulette Jiles San antonio Copy Share Image
“You are not thinking of reading law, are you? he said. Oh God no! John Calley stood holding the paint can. I… — Paulette Jiles Artist Copy Share Image
“No matter what side you were on, if you had survived Gettysburg you were to be congratulated.” — Paulette Jiles Gettysburg Copy Share Image
“In case of attack, this completely inadequate load of bird shot will make a loud noise, if nothing else.” — Paulette Jiles Attack Copy Share Image
“Young people could get away with rough clothing but unless the elderly dressed with care they looked like homeless vagabonds” — Paulette Jiles Fashion Copy Share Image
“Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.” — Paulette Jiles Ethics Copy Share Image
“Everyone has come to celebrate her return. They will go home and talk about it forever, unto the next generation. But they… — Paulette Jiles Next generation Copy Share Image
“Haain-a? No. Absolutely not. No. No scalping. He lifted her up and swung her up over the ledges of stone and then… — Paulette Jiles Impolite Copy Share Image
The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting. — Paulette Jiles Bones Copy Share Image
Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable. — Paulette Jiles Character Copy Share Image
“To go through our first creation is a turning of the soul we hope toward the light, out of the animal world.… — Paulette Jiles Spirituality Copy Share Image
“It is the fate of all authors to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this… — Paulette Jiles Art Copy Share Image
“They were all odd, the returned captives. All peculiar with minds oddly formed, never quite one thing or another. As Doris had… — Paulette Jiles Captives Copy Share Image
“The Captain’s hand went to his forehead. A dreadful loss of status in the world. In his world. Loss of reputation and… — Paulette Jiles Captain Copy Share Image
“More than ever knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity… — Paulette Jiles Children Copy Share Image
