“I didn’t yet know that romantic heroes—famous and not—are usually aimless nomads in disguise.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“He was a white man and, therefore, he was allowed to be romantic.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191) — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I want all kinds of strangers to love me. The Indian horses screamed.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“He could see his uncles slugging each other with such force that they had to be in love. Strangers would never want… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the… — 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
“Regarding love, marriage, and sex, both Shakespeare and Sitting Bull knew the only truth: treaties get broken.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“That's right I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“But I don't know how much joy she experienced while loving me. I don't know how much joy I was capable of… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“You have to treat your car with love. And I don’t mean love of an object. You see, that’s just wrong. That’s… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costs And benefits of loving those who don't love Strangers. After all, I'm often… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Hey, Arnold," he said. I looked up 'in love with a white girl' on Google and found and article about that white… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I am always amused by those couples- lovers and spouses- who perform and ask others to perform musical chairs whenever they, by… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“She wanted to find a way to love them in death, because she forgot how to love them in life.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“9. In the darkness, her dark body grows darker until I am making love to her and her shadow.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Hey, Mom, I'm a married woman now. I want to have ten babies and live here forever and ever." How weird is… — 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
