“No matter what side you were on, if you had survived Gettysburg you were to be congratulated.” — 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 Life 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 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
“This is writing. This is printing. This tells us of all the things we ought to know in the world. And also… — Paulette Jiles Writing 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 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
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
“as they drifted they had gathered trouble and a great deal of peculiar knowledge about human beings, what human beings would do… — Paulette Jiles 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
“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
“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
“He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the… — Paulette Jiles Good For The Soul 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
“They are mentally not very fast. They are every one of them one brick short of a load.” — Paulette Jiles 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 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“In case of attack, this completely inadequate load of bird shot will make a loud noise, if nothing else.” — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
“He made a list: feed, flour, ammunition, soap, beef, candles, faith, hope, charity.” — Paulette Jiles Faith hope Copy Share Image
