Stone Song Quotes

“A man does not sell the earth the people walk on.” That”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“No Water made her want to be taken, which was exciting and frightening. Crazy Horse made her want to give, which was fulfilling. She”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“Half a life ago I was one man, and am now another. Where once I paid attention to my head, I now follow my heart. Where I once I strove for achievement, I now seek to give and receive love. Though I still want to earn a living, my writing now is entirely born in love and offered as love. I”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“Only by going on an untrod path, by making your own path, by being your singular self, can anyone find his own grail. In”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“Intuition? Yes, from experience I can say that’s a kind of knowing that has no rationale, but just rises up your body, your mind, your whole being and lets you know.”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“The white men have ways of doing you favors that can get you killed.” Crazy”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“and barred windows. He”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“difference between his government’s ineptitude and his personal generosity. He’d nipped these items from the quartermaster’s store, and he couldn’t do much of that. Now he and Crazy Horse had told stories all evening, war stories, hunting stories, the kinds of tales men of action tell on the way to becoming friends. Crazy Horse had told how his people’s leaders had bargained away what the soldiers had won on the battlefield. Which was how every soldier felt. “Did”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“heart. As he looked around at the agency Indians, dependent, destitute, spiritless, it was clearer than ever that an agency offered no life to him and no prospect for the return of Hawk. The people might be able to live here, he didn’t know. Hawk would never come to him here, and he would die. And until his death, live gutted of spirit. He walked his pony and felt in its hooves the pulse of the drum, tapping the earth.”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“You can do anything, be anything,” his father often said, “if you’re willing to accept what comes”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“Everything was askew—this whole time on earth, his time for being alive, was aberrant. Three”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“Mitakuye oyasin—we are all related. So”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“When you are truly thirsty, drink deep. When you truly feel the drum, dance.”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“General Crook had said when a reporter asked him what was the hardest thing about fighting Indians. Replied Three Stars, “Knowing you’re wrong.” Lieutenant”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“Out here we go hungry sometimes. There we would beg, humiliate ourselves, get robbed, and then starve. Now”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“It was astonishing, the visitors said, the way all the white men worked together and set up the road so quickly, each man like a limb of a hundred-legged bug, each doing just what was needed at the right moment. A small thing for each man, but when it was done right, the bug scooted fast. Crazy”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“nothing was more peculiar about the whites than the way they were always refusing responsibility by saying they were following orders.”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“cut a piece of moist skin from a dead horse, and tied it tightly over the wound. Curly”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“They are pitiful, the wasicu. They don’t know enough to make peace with their own dreams. So the dreams torment them.” Curly”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“The badlands, the place where the earth itself was misshapen, where the gods had destroyed the ancient animals and hurled their bones into the earth.”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“To be defeated by superior numbers, that was only physical. To give up your spirit, that truly would be death. He”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“But these were only things. In return for them the wasicu wanted you to relinquish your own genius, which was not of things but of the spirit. From”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“You might fight your enemy—that had respect in it. You might even kill him—respect again. But to do what the wasicu did: afflict your enemy with disease, pen him up, starve him, and then rescue his body on the condition that he surrender his spirit”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“the claims of incredible numbers of wasicu, an old tale raised once more.”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“Their deepest desire—believe me about this—is to change our way of living. Their deepest desire is to make us like them. I swear it.” Tasunke”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“the U.S. government this very summer was sending an army against the Mormons at the big salty lake to make the Mormons live like the other wasicu, especially not to take more than one wife. Incomprehensible. “They”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“They fight and kill each other. Instead of respecting another man’s way, they stop at nothing to get him to adopt their way. Like the Mormons.” The”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“Among the whites some think they can see and choose for others.”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“Other Lakota would respect it. None would try to coerce it or even influence it. None would mock it. Your understanding was the essence of you, and to follow it your sacred choice. All”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“What good is a white man if you can’t have a little fun with him? “At”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse