# Quote — Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

> "She taught me this above all else: things which don't shift and grow are dead things. They are things the witchery people want. Witchery works to scare people, to make them fear growth. But it has always been necessary, and more than ever now, it is. Otherwise we won't make it. We won't survive..." (p116)

- 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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> [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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