“It seemed like an instant, the world i had know was replaced by an ominous black cloud.” (Wagamese pg47)
“How does it come to walk beside a man? is it a dog? is it a grandfather who lost his way?” (Wagamese pg5)
“They rubbed us nearly raw. It felt like they were trying to remove more than grime or odour.” (Wagamese pg 44)
“It was a dim world. Things glittered, never shone.” (Wagamese pg81)
“I understood then that when you miss a thing it leaves a hole that only the thing you miss can fill.” (Wagamese pg 219)
“When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated, when the family you came from is denounced and your tribal ways and rituals are pronounced backward, primitive, savage, you come to see yourself as less than human. That is hell on earth, that sense of unworthiness. That's what they inflicted on us.” (Wagamese pg 81)
“Frozen to death saving me…”(Wagamese pg 42)
“They called it a school, but it was never that….There were no tests or examinations. The only test was our ability to survive.” (Wagamese pg 79)
“The first thing you have to realize is that what you need to survive is killing you.” (Wagamese pg 189)
“White ice, White players.” (Wagamese 149)