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Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2) QUOTES

Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2) QUOTES

1 " Leaphorn sat on a slab of sandstone and considered what these tracks told him. It wasn’t much.

He could guess that the killing hadn’t been premeditated — at least not completely. One who plans to carry a body a long distance uphill over rough ground does not wear moccasins if he has any respect for his feet. "

― Tony Hillerman , Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)

2 " But would the man who hunted him still be here? Leaphorn considered this. The man would have known he had flushed his bird. He needed to be a fairly competent tracker to find George’s kill site. But once George was running, covering his tracks, he would have to be much better than that. He would have to be as good as Joe Leaphorn — and perhaps better than Leaphorn. As far as Leaphorn knew, there were no better trackers than himself. Certainly no Zuni, or white man. "

― Tony Hillerman , Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)

3 " It had occurred to Leaphorn earlier that Baker was not, in fact, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He didn’t look like one. He had bad teeth, irregular and discolored, and an air of casual sloppiness, and something about him which suggested a quick, inquisitive, impatient intelligence. Leaphorn’s extensive experience with the FBI suggested that any of these three characteristics would prevent employment. The FBI people always seemed to be O’Malleys — trimmed, scrubbed, tidy, able to work untroubled by any special measure of intelligence. O’Malley was still talking. Leaphorn looked at him, wondering about this FBI policy. Where did they find so many O’Malleys? He had a sudden vision of an office in the Department of Justice building in Washington, a clerk sending out draft notices to all the male cheerleaders and drum majors at USC, Brigham Young, Arizona State, and Notre Dame, ordering them to get their hair cut and report for duty. "

― Tony Hillerman , Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)

4 " that the only goal for man was beauty, and that beauty was found only in harmony, and that this harmony of nature was a matter of dazzling complexity. "

― Tony Hillerman , Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)

5 " By whiteman’s standards, Leaphorn thought, Bowlegs had a net worth of maybe one hundred dollars. The white world’s measure of his life. And what would the Navajo measure be? The Dinee made a harder demand—that man find his place in the harmony of things. "

― Tony Hillerman , Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)

6 " Leaphorn had found that listening carefully to lies is sometimes very revealing of the truth. "

― Tony Hillerman , Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)

7 " But where was home for this boy who had hunted heaven? "

― Tony Hillerman , Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)

8 " Full of mysticism—most of it nonsense and all muddled up—but something in him driving him to know more than a natural man is supposed to know. "

― Tony Hillerman , Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)