Silas Crow Quotes in Dance Me Outside (1994)

Silas Crow: I think you're looking pretty good for three years in the pen.

Gooch: It's a fucking health spa.

Silas Crow: You see that? I offer the crow my last smoke, and he bites me.

Frank Fencepost: Probably trying to quit.

Bald Cop: Name?

Frank Fencepost: Frank Fencepost.

Bald Cop: Address?

Frank Fencepost: Where do I live?

Bald Cop: Yeah, where do you live?

Frank Fencepost: I live where the land meets the sky. Where the eagle and the raven fly free. I live under the sun and the moon.

Bald Cop: [to Silas] Where do you live?

Silas Crow: I'm his neighbour.

Silas Crow: My name is Silas Crow. I'm 18-years-old. For a year, me and Frank Fencepost been trying to get into this mechanic school. First, they tell us we gotta write a story. Something about something we know. Well, for a long time I couldn't find one, I mean, lots of stuff goes on here, but I couldn't see it as stuff you'd write down.

Silas Crow: Yeah, I think we broke up.

Frank Fencepost: This mean she's free?

[Silas throws something at him]

Frank Fencepost: Hey! It's this hangover and I still got the morning wood, what can I say?

Silas Crow: Poppy left the next week, she got to be a waitress in Toronto. Frank said he really didn't give a shit, but I know he didn't mean it. Coyote put the books away. He was always getting in fights after that. Sadie, I didn't see much anymore. She got organized about the trial and trying to get more attention for Native issues, and I know that's really good. But it was a long time and I missed her.

[after Little Margaret's murder]

Robert McVey: What are these things? Totems?

Silas Crow: Those are old car parts.

Sadie Maracle: You know Silas, that story you wrote for your entrance exam is pretty good.

Silas Crow: Yeah?

Sadie Maracle: Yeah. But Frank's was wicked! I mean, he should get it published.

Silas Crow: You really think so?

Sadie Maracle: Yeah.

Silas Crow: I think Frank's is the best thing I ever wrote.

Robert Coyote: What's he doing?

Silas Crow: I think he's thinking.

[referring to Gooch]

Silas Crow: Up till that day, what was always told about Little Margaret was the funny story of how she got her name. Her family's got 12 kids and I guess at the hospital, her Dad forgot they already had a Margaret, and called her Margaret too. But they won't tell that anymore; Little Margaret's got a different story now. You know, the only other time I saw anyone dead was when Joe Buffalo died. He was in a box and looked like he was sleeping. But Little Margaret was murdered and her eyes were wide open when we found her.

Silas Crow: This feels great!

Frank Fencepost: Imagine blowing up a building!

[destroying an FBI car]

Silas Crow: Ah, choosing your animal name. First, you choose your animal, which is your spirit. The animal most like you. For instance, Pete, you are?

Pete: Ah... Bird.

Silas Crow: Around the circle, Wendel?

Wendel: Dog.

Frank Fencepost: I am the Brown Bear. Silas?

Silas Crow: I am the Walrus.

Robert McVey: I am the Wolverine! I am the Wolverine! What is that sound? It is a gopher. It is the beaver, those cowardly rodents tremble before me. I am the Wolverine! I rip the throats from my enemy, I paint myself with their blood!

Frank Fencepost: Where'd you find this guy, he's excellent?

Silas Crow: He's an animal.

Robert McVey: I am the Wolverine!

Frank Fencepost: Now, this is the part where you get your private, secret Indian name. You are Bob! B Bob.

Silas Crow: Firechief.

Frank Fencepost: Bob Firechief!

[all begin dancing around camp fire]

Robert McVey: The hunt is on!

[runs through the woods]

Silas Crow: You got a mad dog, you kill it.

[planning revenge on Clarence]

Clarence Gaskill: Fuck, it's a bitch out man, I'm freezing. Come on man spark that shit up.

Silas Crow: It's in my boot.

Clarence Gaskill: Whatya want me to do, light your foot on fire?

Silas Crow: Illianna's pregnant, which Ma and McVey are real happy about. No one's talking eh!