Laughing Boy Quotes

“Time passing and corn growing cannot be seen; one can notice only that the moon has grown so much older, the corn so much higher.”
― Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy

“THIS BOOK is a work of fiction. I have tried to be as true as I knew how to the general spirit of Navajo”
― Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story

“The track of an evil thought is crooked and has no end;”
― Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story

“An Indian takes the weather passively, accepting and enduring it without the European’s mental revolt or impatience. Comfort and fat living had changed this to some degree in Laughing Boy; he was unusually aware of discomfort, and resentful, rating the blizzard as colder than it was. Slim Girl was simply miserable. They did not speak, but jogged on, punishing their horses.”
― Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story

“Her American education had dulled her sensibility to the quick, compact imagery of a single statement, leaving to the hearer the evocation of the picture intended that forms the basis of Navajo poetry.”
― Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy

“He was a young man very much in love, a young man with a mind made up to love.”
― Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy

“Why should he worry himself about this woman? And why should he worry about anything else as long as he had this woman?”
― Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story

“When the sun has been destroyed for a man, what comfort is there in a world of moonlight?”
― Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story

“With you I could live, without you I was already dead.”
― Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story