“Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive. And, maybe, this repetition can become a chant inside a healing ceremony.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“This is who I am. This is who I have always been. I am in pain. I am always in pain. But… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“My name is Sherman Alexie and I was born from loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and… — 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
“Grief is when you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“The Staging In the weeks after my mother's death, I sleep Four or five hours a night, often interrupted By dreams, and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I don't know if I ever told you, my therapist said. But I'm a birder. I love birds. and when they hit… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Self-Exam Dear audience, please stand if you were raised By a terrible mother. Okay, okay, Approximately half of you. So I'd say… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“He felt split in two, one crazy man eating hair and one rational man watching a crazy man eat hair. He chewed… — 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
