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I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.
— Louise Erdrich
My parents' marriage is a gift to everyone around them - 60 years of making their kids laugh. How many parents are actually funny?
— Louise Erdrich
Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.
— Louise Erdrich
Why now that he's sober and thoughtful, and living as a good man, does he get in the worst trouble of his life?
— Louise Erdrich
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
— Louise Erdrich
I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
— Louise Erdrich
Nector got even by the use of penmanship.
— Louise Erdrich
I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.
— Louise Erdrich
Plans sprang up. She would get fancier chickens.
— Louise Erdrich
What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
— Louise Erdrich
To fly from one tree to another, the raven hangs itself, hawklike, on the air. I hang myself that same way in sleep, between one day and the next.
— Louise Erdrich
I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive.
— Louise Erdrich
Bad smells made her angry, they were a personal affront.
— Louise Erdrich
She was a woman of reserve.
— Louise Erdrich
I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.
— Louise Erdrich
Getting out of bed, out of a chair, changing her position, was like moving furniture.
— Louise Erdrich
We'll get to the truth quicker if we don't worry about logic.
— Louise Erdrich
Blue Juneberry, tough diamond willow.
— Louise Erdrich
For the countries of the spirit, to which he was now admitted, were accessible only via many dim and tangled trails.
— Louise Erdrich
I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.
— Louise Erdrich
Getting blown up happened in an instant; getting put together took the rest of your life.
— Louise Erdrich
Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.
— Louise Erdrich
Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longingthat was me. — Louise Erdrich
He had a thousand-year-old stare.
— Louise Erdrich
I spend most of my time writing.
— Louise Erdrich
Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the very young.
— Louise Erdrich
I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room.
— Louise Erdrich
By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
— Louise Erdrich
It was Sister Hildegarde's belief that good penmanship was the defining key to success in life.
— Louise Erdrich
Now that she was conscious there was no end to her questions and exclamations, for Dot was a born traveler, meant to go places, unlike us.
— Louise Erdrich
Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.
— Louise Erdrich
Soon she cried and farted herself to sleep.
— Louise Erdrich
Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
— Louise Erdrich
We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
— Louise Erdrich
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
— Louise Erdrich
The gun jammed on the last shot and the baby stood holding the crib rail, eyes wild, bawling.
— Louise Erdrich
Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
— Louise Erdrich
But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
— Louise Erdrich
Life is made up of three kinds of people those who live it, those afraid to, those in between. — Louise Erdrich
It was enough just to sit there without words.
— Louise Erdrich
The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
— Louise Erdrich
The Creator made us for each other. Me here. Zelia there. Space was put between us by human error. But our hearts listened to divine will.
— Louise Erdrich
Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.
— Louise Erdrich
My father had bought an ugly new clock, and it was ticking again in the quiet kitchen.
— Louise Erdrich
White people covered the earth like lice.
— Louise Erdrich
People still lived on the margins of the land they had owned.
— Louise Erdrich
When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge; no fact can deflect their point of view.
— Louise Erdrich
Hunger steals the memory
— Louise Erdrich
Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.
— Louise Erdrich
It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.
— Louise Erdrich
The people stared through her as though she were invisible until she thought she was, and walked more easily then, just a cloud reflected in a stream.
— Louise Erdrich
The whiskey had its own mind. Or spirit, he said. A cunning spirit. Sometimes it fooled him. Sometimes it set him free.
— Louise Erdrich
Her outfit must have penetrated his unconscious. She wore a shirt of softly fringed suede that clung to her breasts like an unforgiven sin.
— Louise Erdrich
Death is the least civilized rite of passage.
— Louise Erdrich
When we're young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.
— Louise Erdrich
I have never seen the truth," said Damien, "without crossing my eyes. Life is crazy.
— Louise Erdrich
Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.
— Louise Erdrich
Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.
— Louise Erdrich
I have to write. I have to be an artist.
— Louise Erdrich
He had started to understand how a woman's attention could succeed in making sense of a man's blind chaos..
— Louise Erdrich
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
— Louise Erdrich
So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?
— Louise Erdrich
You said if they're assigned to Indian Country they are either rookies or have trouble with authority. Did
— Louise Erdrich
What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
— Louise Erdrich
Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.
— Louise Erdrich
Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.
— Louise Erdrich
She had a talent for looking at a person with no expression - you filled in whatever you felt guiltiest about.
— Louise Erdrich
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
— Louise Erdrich
Albertine was one of those who took on too much in order to remain perpetually dissatisfied with herself.
— Louise Erdrich
Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
— Louise Erdrich
So you see, once a person drops the scales of prejudiced certainty and doubts appear, there is no telling how far a heart can open.
— Louise Erdrich
Whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom
— Louise Erdrich
Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.
— Louise Erdrich
Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
— Louise Erdrich
She smelled of Marlboros, Aviance Night Musk, and her first drink of the late afternoon.
— Louise Erdrich
It was just enough to sit there without words.
— Louise Erdrich
I already knew, too, that these questions would not change the facts. But they would inevitably change the way we sought justice.
— Louise Erdrich
I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.
— Louise Erdrich
Fidelis was not a religious man, except when it came to his knives.
— Louise Erdrich
He was a bad thing waiting for a worse thing to happen.
— Louise Erdrich
I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.
— Louise Erdrich
I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.
— Louise Erdrich
A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
— Louise Erdrich
So I was, like most artists, deformed by my art.
— Louise Erdrich
The moonless sky was a rich wild blackness of stars.
— Louise Erdrich
