People of Darkness Quotes

“You’re not playing the game,’ Mary Landon said. ‘I told you about me. You’re just telling me about your family.’

The statement surprised Chee. One defined himself by his family. How else? And then it occurred to him that white people didn’t. They identified themselves by what they had done as individuals.”
― Tony Hillerman, People of Darkness

“Don’t think a man don’t care about one goat because he’s got a thousand of ’em,” Hosteen Nakai would say. “He’s got a thousand because he cares more about goats than he cares about his relatives.”
― Tony Hillerman, People of Darkness

“Rabbits,”
― Tony Hillerman, People of Darkness

“It seemed an odd thing to put on a tombstone, but then everything about the white man’s burial customs seemed odd to Chee. The Navajos lacked this sentimentality about corpses. Death robbed the body of its value.”
― Tony Hillerman, People of Darkness

“She was a young woman with that pink complexion which made Jimmy Chee wonder why the white men called Indians redskins.”
― Tony Hillerman, People of Darkness