Bearwalker Quotes

“To be honest, I was also upset about what I knew I was heading into. A whole new school where I’d have to make new friends (if I was lucky, which was unlikely) and avoid being stereotyped as a Native American midget (which was probably inevitable). So I was struggling between feeling worried about my mom and feeling sorry for myself, and being angry at her for deserting me and being angry at myself for being so selfish. Although I tried not to show it, my face probably looked like a battlefield that day.”
― Joseph Bruchac, Bearwalker: A Chilling Supernatural Tale About the Mohawk Legend for Children

“Hmm. I’m tempted. But what works against my temptation is the ancient junior high code of Omerta. Nobody squeals on nobody, no matter what.”
― Joseph Bruchac, Bearwalker: A Chilling Supernatural Tale About the Mohawk Legend for Children

“Like most of those who seek to harm the weak, he’s a coward at heart.”
― Joseph Bruchac, Bearwalker: A Chilling Supernatural Tale About the Mohawk Legend for Children

“Perhaps this creature had once been a human, but his lust for power had been so great that he had done the things needed to transform him into a monster bear.”
― Joseph Bruchac, Bearwalker: A Chilling Supernatural Tale About the Mohawk Legend for Children

“But I didn’t care. I just wanted to be close to them and feel their presence. I felt as if I were in there with them, looking out of their eyes, sharing their thoughts.”
― Joseph Bruchac, Bearwalker: A Chilling Supernatural Tale About the Mohawk Legend for Children

“He’s taken courses on things like animal tracking, making a fire with a bow drill, building survival shelters in the forest. Now, my being an Indian, you might imagine I would know about all that stuff. But most Indian kids, even those on the rez, are not learning those things anymore. They’re too busy doing all the things other kids do—watching DVDs, playing Xbox games, and downloading rap music on their iPods.”
― Joseph Bruchac, Bearwalker: A Chilling Supernatural Tale About the Mohawk Legend for Children

“This,” I said, “could be the start of a beautiful friendship.”
― Joseph Bruchac, Bearwalker: A Chilling Supernatural Tale About the Mohawk Legend for Children

“I’ve had a lifelong fascination with bears. Their gentleness and their strength has always touched something deep in me.”
― Joseph Bruchac, Bearwalker: A Chilling Supernatural Tale About the Mohawk Legend for Children

“She’s always suggesting books like a literary marriage broker, wedding readers to the titles just right for them.”
― Joseph Bruchac, Bearwalker: A Chilling Supernatural Tale About the Mohawk Legend for Children

“A year is plenty of time to fit in, right? Like a square peg is going to fit into a round hole if you just give it time? You could say that when I arrived here in the middle of my seventh-grade year I settled into a well-defined niche that was purely my own and remains so in eighth grade. The niche of a minuscule, mouthy Mohawk misfit. And nothing is going to change that.”
― Joseph Bruchac, Bearwalker: A Chilling Supernatural Tale About the Mohawk Legend for Children

“That story I loved so much as a child has become all too real to me now. But I’m not the boy in that old story who could run forever without tiring. I don’t have a bow and arrow. No weapons at all.”
― Joseph Bruchac, Bearwalker: A Chilling Supernatural Tale About the Mohawk Legend for Children

“this is not the time to become lost in sorrow. We must do something and not just wait to be victims.”
― Joseph Bruchac, Bearwalker: A Chilling Supernatural Tale About the Mohawk Legend for Children