The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. Louise Erdrich More Quotes by Louise Erdrich More Quotes From Louise Erdrich 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 regretbodyspirit If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line. Louise Erdrich jokeslinessuicide Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness. Louise Erdrich old-lovelastskind Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed. Louise Erdrich eyeairgiving 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 confusedlovethinking He had a thousand-year-old stare. Louise Erdrich staringthousandyears Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. Louise Erdrich cuttingnaturefeet 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 to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation. Louise Erdrich oppositesorderfather Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it. Louise Erdrich moneyhelpingthinking Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin. Louise Erdrich coinsshadesides 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 caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force. Louise Erdrich mistakejobsbook The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history. Louise Erdrich revisiontriggershouse Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me. Louise Erdrich longingveilshate I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas. Louise Erdrich compostnotebookideas I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground. Louise Erdrich stalkingdoorsthinking Death is the least civilized rite of passage. Louise Erdrich ritepassagesdeath ...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom Louise Erdrich saved By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes. Louise Erdrich cargovernmentpromise There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close. Louise Erdrich designorder Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken. Louise Erdrich old-and-newropetaken
