An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save.

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?

There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve.

Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive.

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.

I didn’t yet know that romantic heroes—famous and not—are usually aimless nomads in disguise.

A sweet fate oft hides a sinner's heart.

Maybe we'll have vampire prom."He shot me an appalled look. "What is this, Twilight?

One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.

I do think, you know, you don't have to have 30 billion, but you have a certain level of freedom.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

Vision sees what could be.

I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?