# Quote — Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

> 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. (p17)

- Author: [Leslie Marmon Silko](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko.md)
- Book: [Ceremony](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/ceremony.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/ceremony/distances-and-days

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> [He] said that only humans had to endure anything, because only humans resisted what they saw outside themselves. Animals did not resist. But they persisted, because they became part of the wind. (p24)

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> The breaking and crushing were gone, and the love pushed inside his chest, and when he cried now, it was because she loved him so much. (p211)

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> He crawled deeper into the black gauzy web where he could rest in the silence, where his coming and going through this world was no more than a star falling across the night sky. He left behind the pain and buzzing in his head; they were shut out by the wide dark distance. (p154)

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