Quotes by Louise Erdrich

As Delphine watched, into her head there popped a strange notion: the idea that perhaps strongly experienced moments, as when Eva turned and the sun met her hair and for that one instant the symbol blazed out, those particular moments were eternal. Those moments actually went somewhere. Into a file of moments that existed out of times range and could not be pilfered by God.

some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise grew discouraged and traveled on.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Here I am where I ought to be.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.

My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In order to fight against our tribes termination, he went to newspapers and politicians and urged them to advocate for our tribe in Washington. He also supported his family through the Depression as a truck farmer.

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”