The Eagle Catcher Quotes

“[Faith] was something other than an intellectual exercise. There were no words, no lofty concepts, that could take away the pain. Faith was living with the pain.”
― Margaret Coel, The Eagle Catcher

“[The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.”
― Margaret Coel, The Eagle Catcher

“To wonder is to begin to know”
― Margaret Coel, The Eagle Catcher

“Arapahos had followed the buffalo, pitched villages in the lee of the mountains, ridden out like itinerant shop-keepers to trade buffalo robes and blankets with other Indian tribes. Intelligent, logical, peaceful, that was the Arapahos. “The businessmen of the plains,” the first white traders had called them.”
― Margaret Coel, The Eagle Catcher