“Gordy,” I said. “I need to talk to you." "I don't have time," he said. "Mr. Orcutt and I have to debug… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Instead, I woke early the next morning, before sunrise, and went out into the world. I walked past my car. I stepped… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Listen," he said one afternoon in the library. "You have to read a book three times before you know it. The first… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Every time they ban the book, it becomes national headlines. I sell more books, so it’s actually lucrative for me. We call… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I’ve been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“It's just me and James walking and walking except he's on my back and his eyes are looking past the people who… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“And finally this, when the sun was falling down so beautiful we didn’t have time to give it a name, she held… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“If you want to make a white man cry, despite the amount of time it’s been since he last wept aloud, then… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“But, no matter what they do, keep walking keep moving. And don't wear a watch. Hell, Indians never need to wear a… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Thing is, I don’t believe in ghosts. But I see them all the time.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“You’re always making up stuff from the past,” she said. “And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Do you understand how one small dog—afraid of the wolves who had attacked him and those who would attack him anew—might stand… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Despite all of the time he spent in Big Heart's, Wilson had never come to understand the social lives of Indians. He… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you don't something is true until you hear it for the first time.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I don’t recall the moment when I officially became a storyteller—a talented liar—but here I must quote Simon Ortiz, the Acoma Pueblo… — 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
