Ceremony Quotes

The only cure I know is a good ceremony, that's what she said. (III)

He woke up crying. He had dreamed Josiah had been hugging him close the way he had when Tayo was a child [...] and he was overcome with all the love there was. He cried because he had to wake up to...

"You see," Josiah had said, [ . . . ] "there are some things worth more than money." He pointed his chin at the springs and around at the narrow canyon. "This is where we come from, see. This sand,...

The skin. He saw the skin of the corpses again and again, in ditches on either side of the long muddy road—skin that was stretched shiny and dark over bloated hands; even white men were darker af...

When the sergeant told them to kill all the Japanese soldiers lined up in front of the cave with their hands on their heads, Tayo could not pull the trigger.

If a person wanted to get to the moon, there was a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions—exactly which way to go and what to do to get there; it depended on whether you knew the...

He could feel it inside his skull—the tension of little threads being pulled and how it was with tangled things, things tied together, and as he tried to pull them apart and rewind them into thei...

Rocky made him look at the corpse and said, "Tayo, this is a Jap! This is a Jap uniform!" And then he rolled the body over with his boot and said, "Look Tayo, look at the face," and that was when T...

Harley didn't use to like beer at all, and maybe this was something that was different about him now, after the war. He drank a lot of beer now. (V.45)