“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
“You are not thinking of reading law, are you? he said. Oh God no! John Calley stood holding the paint can. I… — Paulette Jiles Honest work 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
“dreadful loss of status in the world. In his world. Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in… — Paulette Jiles Death Copy Share Image
“For we must not dwell on Death, as it is a mystery and it is something Unknown we leave to the Lord… — Paulette Jiles Death Copy Share Image
“Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to East Indies, a terrible blow… — Paulette Jiles Religion 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
“Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.” — Paulette Jiles Ethics 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
“The Captain stepped into the stirrup and was proud of the fact that at age seventy-one he could step up from the… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
“They rode up the faint marks of the old trace where thousands of sojourners walking and riding both had crossed it and… — Paulette Jiles Stories Copy Share Image
“Cynthia Parker had starved herself to death when she was returned to her white relatives. So had Temple Friend. Other returned captives… — Paulette Jiles Death Copy Share Image
“It would stay with him always as everything you ever did stayed with you, every horse you ever saddled, every morning he… — Paulette Jiles Every morning 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 Psychology 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 Death 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
“The road ran along the north side of the river, a shy and obsequious road that dodged every bank and lift and… — Paulette Jiles Journey Copy Share Image
“Then took the quilt out of its linen wrapper for the pleasure of the brilliant colors and the feel of the velvet.… — Paulette Jiles Needlework 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
“She let them go all night and in the mornings would find them coming toward her where she slept, with that alert… — Paulette Jiles Fallen angel Copy Share Image
“Captain Kidd said, It has been said by authorities that the law should apply the same to the king and to the… — Paulette Jiles Common people Copy Share Image
