The Blessing Way Quotes

“Beyond meeting simple immediate needs, the Navajo Way placed little worth on property. In fact, being richer than one’s clansmen carried with it a social stigma. It was unnatural, and therefore suspicious.”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“Our society doesn’t have the proper respect for magna cum laude”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“But Navajos didn’t hurry. In fact, there was no word in the Navajo language for time.”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“The white man sees the desolation and calls it a desert, McKee thought, but the Navajo name for it means “Beautiful Valley.”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“Navajos did not kill with cold-blooded premeditation. Nor did they kill for profit. To do so violated the scale of values of The People. Beyond meeting simple immediate needs, the Navajo Way placed little worth on property. In fact, being richer than one’s clansmen carried with it a social stigma. It was unnatural, and therefore suspicious.”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“Did he expect to be in a hurry coming down? Maybe, Leaphorn thought. Maybe that was it. Time. But Navajos didn't hurry. In fact, there was no word in the Navajo language for time.”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“witches in there to scrutinize, there’s plenty of ruins to keep”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“said. His”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“make the deer come out where you could shoot them. But maybe the kangaroo rats”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“Leaphorn cursed in Spanish and then—at length—in English.”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“Time. But Navajos didn’t hurry. In fact, there was no word in the Navajo language for time.”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“He lay still a moment, allowing consciousness to seep through him, noticing first the predawn chill and that his wife had captured most of the blankets they”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“McKee had concluded years ago that the intricacies of feminine logic were beyond his comprehension.”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“The Navajo language is too specific and precise to lend itself to effective profanity. Leaphorn cursed in Spanish and then -- at length -- in English.”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way