Blacktail Quotes

“For one thing, the squirrels had consecrated a death cult in Car’s honor. That in itself was no great distinction—squirrels love nothing so much as a good death cult—but unlike most predators, Car would not be appeased.”
― Scott Hawkins, Blacktail

“God may forgive them for this but if so I will kill Him, too.”
― Scott Hawkins, Blacktail

“The mind is bound by the language it knows,” she said in the field of violets, and again in the desert silence at the other end of her life. “We see only that which we can see, hear the words we can hear. The mind is bound by what it supposes to be real. The eye will see only in a certain range—to all that lays a little above or below that range we are blind.”
― Scott Hawkins, Blacktail

“The Forest God—or courage, if you prefer—sleeps in all places, all hearts. Some, I grant you, more so than others, but each of us must find Him all on our own.”
― Scott Hawkins, Blacktail