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When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.

Leslie Marmon Silko (1986). “The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright”, Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press

Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.

Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

Leslie Marmon Silko, Melody Graulich (1993). “Yellow Woman”, p.3, Rutgers University Press

the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

Leslie Marmon Silko (2013). “Gardens in the Dunes: A Novel”, p.450, Simon and Schuster