Legends of the Fall (1994)

Gordon Tootoosis: One Stab

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• [First lines] 

  One Stab : Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

• One Stab : I thought Tristan would never live to be an old man. I was wrong about that. I was wrong about many things. It was those who loved him most who died young. He was a rock they broke themselves against however much he tried to protect them.

• One Stab : Every warrior hopes a good death will find him.

• One Stab : Tristan died in 1963. The moon of the popping trees. He was last seen up in the North Country, where the hunting was still good. His grave is unmarked, but it does not matter. He had always lived in the borderland anyway, somewhere between this world and the Other.

• One Stab : She was like the water that freezes inside a rock and breaks it apart. It was no more her fault than it is the fault of the water when the rock shatters.

• [last lines] 

  One Stab : It was a good death.

• One Stab : [Describing Tristan]  I think it was the bear, growling inside him. Making him do bad things. Nothing that Tristan did was truly his own fault. It was the bear.

• One Stab : It is hard to tell of happiness. Time goes by and we feel safe too soon.

• One Stab : It was a good death.

• One Stab : The Old Ones say, "When a man and an animal have spilled each other's blood, they become one."

• One Stab : How much I wanted to take scalps. But it was not my kill.