Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in… — 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
We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing? — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. — 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 was a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
