"The Color Of Lightning" Quotes
A gripping historical novel that tells the story of a freed slave's quest to rescue his kidnapped family in the midst of the Texas frontier.
historical fiction | 349 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
You learn to live with the idea that there is a place for you and a place for the Indians and there are no in-betweens. You hate the Comanche because they are Indian and they hate you because you are white. But you learn to live with it.
The sun went down and the horizon was filled with the colors of lightning.
He had never felt like a prisoner before. He was a free man who had been captured.
It was a kind of beauty he had never seen before. It was as if the earth itself was alive, pulsing with energy.
He had been taught that Indians were savages, but he had seen enough to know that they were just people, like anyone else.
Sometimes the best thing you can do is just keep moving forward, even when it feels like you're going nowhere.
The world was full of danger and uncertainty, but he had to keep going. He had to find his family.
The land was vast and untamed, just like the people who lived on it.
He had lost everything, but he still had hope. And that was enough to keep him going.
The world was changing, and he had to change with it or be left behind.
