Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth. Louise Erdrich More Quotes by Louise Erdrich More Quotes From Louise Erdrich I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down. Louise Erdrich want-something church would-be All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. Louise Erdrich undoing our-actions action The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous. Louise Erdrich music sound feelings Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could. Louise Erdrich wish facts thinking You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where. Louise Erdrich knowing people fall I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated. Louise Erdrich delusion records sound A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life. Louise Erdrich next body men 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 even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret. Louise Erdrich secret writing book The world tips away when we look into our children's faces. Louise Erdrich children looks world 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, is what I was looking for. Louise Erdrich illness hands thinking It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. Louise Erdrich impossible writing people Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before seen. "An island called Spirit Island where everyone but you died of the itching sickness- you were the toughest one, the littlest one, and you survived them all.""You were sent here so you could save the others," she said. "Because you'd had the sickness, you were strong enough to nurse them through it. They did a good thing when they took you in, and you saved them for their good act. Now the circle that began when I found you is complete. Louise Erdrich circles strong islands They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. Louise Erdrich strong belief time Hunger steals the memory Louise Erdrich hunger stealing memories 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 moral poor evil 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 stars eye night I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense. Louise Erdrich logical belief The universe is transformation. Louise Erdrich transformation universe I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it. Louise Erdrich sunday fighting kids I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes. Louise Erdrich revenge dwelling trying
