“He made a list: feed, flour, ammunition, soap, beef, candles, faith, hope, charity.” — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
“A thin watery sun laid its gunmetal shine on the country below.” — Paulette Jiles Moon 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
“In case of attack, this completely inadequate load of bird shot will make a loud noise, if nothing else.” — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting. — Paulette Jiles 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
“No matter what side you were on, if you had survived Gettysburg you were to be congratulated.” — Paulette Jiles Gettysburg 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
“Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.” — Paulette Jiles Conscience 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
“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
And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately… — Paulette Jiles 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“Cynthia Parker had starved herself to death when she was returned to her white relatives. So had Temple Friend. Other returned captives… — Paulette Jiles 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“They were all odd, the returned captives. All peculiar with minds oddly formed, never quite one thing or another. As Doris had… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
