Quotes from book
Ceremony

Name: Ceremony
Author: Leslie Marmon Silko

Ceremony is a novel by Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko, first published by Penguin in March 1977. The title Ceremony is based upon the oral traditions and ceremonial practices of the Navajo and Pueblo people.

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”

Leslie Marmon Silko book Ceremony

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“You damn your own soul better than I ever could.”

Leslie Marmon Silko book Ceremony

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“I will tell you something about stories… They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.”

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“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”

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“Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there was a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions-exactly which way to go and what to do to get there; it depended on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone.”

Leslie Marmon Silko book Ceremony

Ceremony (1977)

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