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“Stanley told me that's how everybody does business these days. They make up swell corporations so no one can find them."

"It's shell corporations."

"That's what we should have done when that Columbus guy showed up.”
― Thomas King, DreadfulWater

“The teachings show us that we learn and become strong through suffering. I can see that you are very strong. There is no shame in sadness.”
― Michelle Good, Five Little Indians

“There are no English words to describe how one woman walked into that lodge and another walked out. All Clara knew was that it took her back. Back to the birch grove and the angel songs. Back to who she was before Sister Mary, before the school, before they tried to beat her into a little brown white girl. She felt a certainty, from then on, that all the ones who had come before walked with her. Life was no longer just survival. It was about being someone. An Indian someone, with all the truth that was born into her at the moment she was placed in her mother's womb.”
― Michelle Good, Five Little Indians

“So it’s lucky for me that literary analysis is not about proof, only persuasion. In our cynical world, where suspicion is a necessity, insisting that something is true is not nearly as powerful as suggesting that something might be true.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative