Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
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
I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb,… — 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. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.” — 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
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“She gave her husband such a night of sexual pleasure that his eyes followed her constantly after that, narrow and hot. He… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place… — 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
You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so… — 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
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