How we cite our quotes: (Poem.Paragraph)
Quote #10
He cried the relief he felt at finally seeing the pattern, the way all the stories fit together—the old stories, the war stories, their stories—to become the story that was still being told. He was not crazy; he had never been crazy. He had only seen and heard the world as it always was: no boundaries, only transitions through all distances and time. (XXV.223)
What earlier felt like craziness—imagining people could wander back and forth in time—now seems to make perfect sense thanks to Tayo's new understanding of the ceremony.
Quote #11
He would have been another victim, a drunk Indian war veteran settling an old feud; and the army doctors would say that the indications of this end had been there all along [ . . . ]. The white people would shake their heads, more proud than sad that it took a white man to survive in their world [ . . . ]. (XXVI.27)
Tayo imagines how killing Emo would look from the point of view of the white people. They would have been wrong, but their rumors would have reinforced their unhealthy way of looking at the world.