This book is dedicated to the storytellers as far back as memory goes and to the telling which continues and… — 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)

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

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