Top 18 Paulette Jiles Quotes
#1. No matter what side you were on, if you had survived Gettysburg you were to be congratulated.
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#2. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works.
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#3. Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to Malaysia, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.
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#4. Above and behind them the Dipper turned on its great handle as if to pour night itself out onto the dreaming continent and each of its seven stars gleamed from between the fitful clouds.
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#5. More than ever knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity to protect children and kill for them if necessary.
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#6. Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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#7. Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage.
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#8. And the newspapers, they say nothing about this at all or about the poor at all, Doris said. There are great holes in your newspapers. Nobody sees them. God sees them. The
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#9. Johanna bent her head far back to look up into the leafy canopy and the rainy sky. There was a cautious wonder on her face. She said something in Kiowa in a low voice. So much water, such giant trees, each possessing a spirit. Drops like jewels cascaded from their spidery hands.
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#10. It was a puzzling thing as to why they packed up in towns in the way they did.
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#11. She said something in Kiowa in a happy tone. My name is Ay-ti-Podle, the Cicada, whose song means there is a fruit ripening nearby. She gestured back toward the big bay saddle horse and tossed her hair back. It was as if she wanted to include Pasha in this newfound happiness.
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#12. A thin watery sun laid its gunmetal shine on the country below.
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#13. Everyone has come to celebrate her return. They will go home and talk about it forever, unto the next generation. But they will not come here and ask about her welfare.
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#14. The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.
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#15. What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.
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#16. but now the news of the world aged him more than time itself.
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#17. Falls. He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works. THAT
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#18. Who cares for your fashions and your wars and your causes? I will shortly be gone and I have seen many fashions come and go and many causes so passionately defended only to be forgotten.
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