“ They're all the same-- the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor-- they all share a fundamental belief in the malleability of truth Louise Erdrich
“ Some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where. Louise Erdrich
“ I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise grew discouraged and traveled on. Louise Erdrich
“ I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room. Louise Erdrich
“ Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the very young. Louise Erdrich
“ My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teach… Louise Erdrich
“ My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In order to fight against our tribe's termination, he went to newspapers and politicians and urged them to… Louise Erdrich
“ I look down at my black Diablo, head on his paws. He is at my feet. He knows that he must trust to my forgiveness for his daily meat. So he wags his plumed tail and noses at my foot and I pat him gent… Louise Erdrich
“ 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
“ 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 of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Inste… Louise Erdrich
“ Upon walking into Eva's kitchen, something profound happened to Delphine. She experienced a fabulous expansion of being. Light-headed, she felt a swooping sensation and then a quiet, as though she'd s… Louise Erdrich
“ She gave her husband such a night of sexual pleasure that his eyes followed her constantly after that, narrow and hot. He grew molten when she passed near other men, and at night they made their own s… Louise Erdrich
“ If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one… Louise Erdrich
“ Delphine began to read with a mad attention when she wanted to talk to Clarisse. She saw that in her life there was a woman-shaped hole, a cutout that led to a mysterious place. Through it, her mother… Louise Erdrich
“ Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being 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 he… Louise Erdrich
