Sherman Alexie Quotes
So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.
Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.
What if someone picks on me?" I askedThen I'll pick on them".What if someone picks my nose?" I asked.The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.
(I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family.) Can your best friend be more importamt than your family?
The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.
What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus had never rolled back the stone and risen from his tomb.
I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain?
How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.
They wanted to help me with my pain.
I was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart.
There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve.
He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words.
My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.
An Indian’s wealth Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save.
I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.
You’re always making up stuff from the past, ” she said. “And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened.
A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.
Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred, But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts
Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.
He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.
Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".
I would close my eyes and dream of something strong, dream of horses exploding, rising into the air, their hearts beating survive, survive, survive.
Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems.
Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and against the starvation. We survived because we trusted one another.
More and more, he heard his spine playing stick games through his skin, singing old dusty words, the words of all his years.
I learned how to stop crying.I learned how to hide inside of myself.I learned how to be somebody else.I learned how to be cold and numb.
I didn’t yet know that romantic heroes—famous and not—are usually aimless nomads in disguise.
He was my best friend and I needed him.
Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap.
So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation.
But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience?
But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other.
I hoped and prayed that they would someday forgive me for leaving them. I hoped and prayed that I would someday forgive myself for leaving them.
But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer.
son, " Mr. P said. "You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation.
