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Louise Erdrich Quotes

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness Picture Quote #1

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history Picture Quote #1

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished Picture Quote #1

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 from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled Picture Quote #1

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 in good. You’ll see Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going Picture Quote #1

The greatest wisdom doesn’t know itself. The richest plan is not to have one Picture Quote #1

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 a new way, a way she’s never been told about Picture Quote #1

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don’t know how strong until we’re pushing out our babies Picture Quote #1

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Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with Picture Quote #1

Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware Picture Quote #1

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart Picture Quote #1

He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he’d become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul Picture Quote #1

A woman’s body is the gate to this life. A man’s body is the gate to the next life Picture Quote #1

I knew each person’s delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a piece. As if the sky were a pattern of nerves and our thought and memories traveled across it. As if the sky were one gigantic memory for us all Picture Quote #1

The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections Picture Quote #1

We have these earthly bodies. We don’t know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is the illusion of the healthy and the protected. Of sedate lovers. For the body has emotions it conceives and carries through without concern for anyone or anything else. Love is one of those, I guess. Going back to something very old knit into the brain as we were growing. Hopeless. Scorching. Ordinary Picture Quote #1

Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they’ll leave you, sure. There’s no return to what was and no way back. There’s just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting Picture Quote #1

... 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 us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures Picture Quote #1

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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 and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I’ll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood Picture Quote #1

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 first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars Picture Quote #1

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 were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next Picture Quote #1

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 returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire Picture Quote #1

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with Picture Quote #1

His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures Picture Quote #1

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Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness (Louise Erdrich Quotes) What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history (Louise Erdrich Quotes) When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished (Louise Erdrich Quotes) 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 from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled (Louise Erdrich Quotes) 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 in good. You’ll see (Louise Erdrich Quotes) 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 (Louise Erdrich Quotes) We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going (Louise Erdrich Quotes) The greatest wisdom doesn’t know itself. The richest plan is not to have one (Louise Erdrich Quotes) 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 a new way, a way she’s never been told about (Louise Erdrich Quotes) I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not? (Louise Erdrich Quotes) 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 (Louise Erdrich Quotes) Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don’t know how strong until we’re pushing out our babies (Louise Erdrich Quotes) Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with (Louise Erdrich Quotes) Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware (Louise Erdrich Quotes) You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart (Louise Erdrich Quotes) He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he’d become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul (Louise Erdrich Quotes) A woman’s body is the gate to this life. A man’s body is the gate to the next life (Louise Erdrich Quotes) I knew each person’s delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated (Louise Erdrich Quotes) 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 (Louise Erdrich Quotes) At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a piece. As if the sky were a pattern of nerves and our thought and memories traveled across it. As if the sky were one gigantic memory for us all (Louise Erdrich Quotes) The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections (Louise Erdrich Quotes) We have these earthly bodies. We don’t know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is the illusion of the healthy and the protected. Of sedate lovers. For the body has emotions it conceives and carries through without concern for anyone or anything else. Love is one of those, I guess. Going back to something very old knit into the brain as we were growing. Hopeless. Scorching. Ordinary (Louise Erdrich Quotes) Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they’ll leave you, sure. There’s no return to what was and no way back. There’s just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting (Louise Erdrich Quotes) ... 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 us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures (Louise Erdrich Quotes) 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 and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I’ll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood (Louise Erdrich Quotes) 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 first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars (Louise Erdrich Quotes) 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 were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next (Louise Erdrich Quotes) 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 returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire (Louise Erdrich Quotes) Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with (Louise Erdrich Quotes) His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures (Louise Erdrich Quotes)

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