It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable. — 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
When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed… — 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
In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Now I'm sixty-one... sixty-two, pretty soon. It's a really interesting age. Now we have women of your age, and coming up, and… — 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
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a… — 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
All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature… — 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
