“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“The world is too fucking big. Sometimes, I can't even carry myself through all the love and fear.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“If you care about something enough, it's going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“What do you have to worry about? That you're lonely? That you have a mortgage? That your wife doesn't love you? F… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Of course, ever since white people showed up and brought along their Christianity and their fears of eccentricity, Indians have gradually lost… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity. In fact, weird people were often celebrated. Epileptics were… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years have changed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Is there really a difference between that killing and this killing? Does God approve of some killing and not other killing? If I kill… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Dear wife, I'm sorry that I am mysteriously incapable of folding clean laundry, but I iron, oh, I iron. Sweetheart, I'll make your white… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
