Quotes from Tony Hillerman

The red light changed the color of her shirt, and her faded jeans, and her face. Her hair was disheveled, her expression intent, and, taken all together, she looked absolutely beautiful to Jim Chee. It would be a lot better, he thought, if friends didn't look like that.

I hear you're a medicine man. I heard you are a singer of the Blessing Way. Is that right?" Chee looked slightly stubborn. "Yes sir," he said. "I would like to ask you to sing one for me," Leaphorn said.

I'm getting to be like a white man," she said. "I'm getting in a hurry for you to tell me what this is all about.

witches in there to scrutinize, there's plenty of ruins to keep

Our society doesn't have the proper respect for magna cum laude

where sophistication required the deeper and more difficult knowledge of how one walked in beauty, content in a difficult world?

make the deer come out where you could shoot them. But maybe the kangaroo rats