Best Louise Erdrich Quotations
- I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand,… Been
- Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness. Desperate
- It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And… All
- There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions. Able
- What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history. Becomes
- The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history. All
- Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light… All
- When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished. Cannot Harm
- Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come… All
- Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me. Hate
- ...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between… Bait
- How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms… Arms
- So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a… Bits
- But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children,… Child
- We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results… Another Human
- Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would… Fear
- But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts. Embellishment
- The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able… Able
- We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going. Forever
- This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance… Accidents
- The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. Greatest
- Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband… Always Gone
- I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in… Been
- He had a thousand-year-old stare. Old
- There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there. Abandoned
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