She was an old woman now, and her life had become memories. (beginning of "Lullaby") — Leslie Marmon Silko

The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be. (p227)

This book is dedicated to the storytellers

as far back as memory goes and to the telling

which continues and through which they all live

and we with them.

"Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words." (p222)