You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I have never fully exorcised shames that struck me to the heart as a child except through written violence, shadowy caricature, and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Albertine was one of those who took on too much in order to remain perpetually dissatisfied with herself.” — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Delphine began to read with a mad attention when she wanted to talk to Clarisse. She saw that in her life there… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Throw it… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“He always had trouble opening his heart. Tonight it was stuck again. It was a wooden chest secured by locked iron bands.… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“When she shut her eyes, her mind grew alert. Her senses opened. All around her, she felt how quickly things formed and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Other freshmen were already moving into their dormitory rooms when we arrived, with their parents helping haul. I saw boxes of paperbacks, stereo equipment,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
“Delphine began to read with a mad attention when she wanted to talk to Clarisse. She saw that in her life there was a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
“The Creator made us for each other. Me here. Zelia there. Space was put between us by human error. But our hearts listened to… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
