Louise Erdrich Quotes

Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

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.

The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous.

I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.

I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom

The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.

It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.

To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

Soon she cried and farted herself to sleep.

Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal repercussions, was superior to any other form of power.

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.

They're all the same-- the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor-- they all share a fundamental belief in the malleability of truth

She compares the deepest wells of depression to gestation, to a time enclosed, a secluded lightlessness in which, unknown and unforced, we grow.

Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.

And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn't been touched yet.

Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the very young.

White people covered the earth like lice.

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.

Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.

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.

some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's 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 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.