Louise Erdrich Quotes

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a despera...

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

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their coming...

And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I ...

My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In ord...

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. Engli...

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, ...

The music was more than music- at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. T...

I look down at my black Diablo, head on his paws. He is at my feet. He knows that he must trust to m...

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

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

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude w...

To join the company of women, to be adults, we go through a period of proudly boasting of having sur...

Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were co...

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude wi...

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude w...

For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over a...

If I die, don't take this too hard," she counseled them, "death is only part of things bigger than w...

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilien...

Upon walking into Eva's kitchen, something profound happened to Delphine. She experienced a fabulous...

Delphine began to read with a mad attention when she wanted to talk to Clarisse. She saw that in her...

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is or...

As Delphine watched, into her head there popped a strange notion: the idea that perhaps strongly exp...

Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alt...

For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, mes...

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

She compares the deepest wells of depression to gestation, to a time enclosed, a secluded lightlessn...

Our baby gives herself to me completely. There is no hesitation, no reservation, no holding back, no...

Wherever the family was, these two dogs, both six-year-old shepherd mixes, took up their posts at th...

White people covered the earth like lice.

Soon she cried and farted herself to sleep.

Snow stepped forward and slapped Josette, who slapped her back. Emmaline dropped the spoon and slapp...

Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.

Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal re...

I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we w...

For much of my life I was not acquainted with what may seem the obscure derivation of the adjective ...

Here I am where I ought to be.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly tho...

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

I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was ...

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

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there...

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

some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after ti...

They're all the same-- the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor-- they all share a fundame...

It was enough just to sit there without words.

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

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving gr...

Life seems to flood by, taking our loves quickly in its flow. In the growth of children, in the agin...

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some question...

Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.

The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdere...

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I w...

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

She gave her husband such a night of sexual pleasure that his eyes followed her constantly after tha...

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the mea...

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.