Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Father Travis wore cassocks most of the time because he liked the convenience. He could put them on over T-shirts and work… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times -… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all… — 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… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never… — 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,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“It was the kind of moment, I see now, that could have gone several ways. She could have laughed, she could have… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you… — 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
This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“As Delphine watched, into her head there popped a strange notion: the idea that perhaps strongly experienced moments, as when Eva turned… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“For much of my life I was not acquainted with what may seem the obscure derivation of the adjective 'sincere.' It is… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Eva sipped her coffee. Today, her hair was bound back in a singular knot, the sides rolled in smooth twists, the knot… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing.… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we were, and who we had… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“My father could out-weather anybody. Like people anywhere, there were times when it was the only topic where people here felt comfortably… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and… — 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
