America Túwaqachi Quotes

“Do you not recognize me?”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“The Sleepin’ Fox Catches No Poultry.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“We live in a complicated society, Bromley—one that is changing and which does indeed need to change. But do you not think any change must begin within our own family gathering?”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“Do not fret, my brother, my child. For the buffalo will roam the plains once more.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“No words in our ledgers could do justice to this sublime beauty,” Captain Lewis said. “The expedition should have brought a camera obscura.”
Peter wasn’t familiar with the words, but no matter. He knew he was part of something magnificent—something greater than himself or the Corps of Discovery. And he knew what it was.
It was America.
And it was beautiful.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“West Point—The Key to the Continent and Independence.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“We must love our slaves, Papa. We must love them as hard as we are able.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“The Day of Trouble is Near”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“We the People . . . The People of the Long House.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“Thunderbird ascended on the heady currents of air that bore her high above the vast landscape of Túwaqachi. She stretched her broad wings, the heat lifting her through the silence, her glossy brown feathers shimmering in the sunlight.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“The Sun Dagger appeared on the rock face directly above the Shaman’s shadowed head. It dazzled within the shade as the sunlight slipped through a gap in the overhead slabs. The dagger cut slowly down the rock, slicing through the very center of the etched spiral.
“The middle of time,” Chaco whispered to himself.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“We must treat with respect our world and all upon it. Túwaqachi is not inherited from our ancestors; it has been loaned to us by our children.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“This is a time of change,” the Shaman said. “This is a time of enormous power.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“For whom do you cry, my son?” the Great Spirit asked.
“I do not know.”
“Yes, you do.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“One large cat bounded up the side of the outcrop to stand in full view on an overhanging boulder. She stared down at them, inside their protective enclosure, tilting her head from side to side. Her scarred yellow-brown coat was immaculately groomed, but the long tufting hair of her snout was matted with the bright red smear of uncongealed blood from a recent kill. Her upper lip curved over the top of foot-long saber teeth.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“Rainbow Cloud strode forward like a hunting cat with the same strength of height and broad shoulders, the same rolling gait as First Light’s father. They were indeed the same man, split in two at birth, so the family might be rewarded by twice the skill in hunting each brother possessed.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family

“There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean’s horizon.”
― P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family