Louise Erdrich Short Quotes

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I want to lean into her the way wheat leans into wind.

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Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

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Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.

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There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

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I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.

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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

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The practice of deception was so constant with her that it got to be a kind of truth.

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What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

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Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

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She had a talent for looking at a person with no expression — you filled in whatever you felt guiltiest about.

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She was the crow of the reservation, she lived off our scraps, and she knew us best because the scraps told our story.

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My mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.

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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 pass.

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We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

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So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

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I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

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You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

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I was sitting before my third or fourth Jellybean—which is anisette, grain alcohol, a lit match, and a small, wet explosion in the brain.

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Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

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Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

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She... stares at me without blinking her cold yellow eyes. She has the look of a hawk, of a person who can see into the future but won't tell you about it.

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Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

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