“That's what a drum is all about - it gathers people in and holds them.” PeopleDrum Book:The Painted Drum Source: The Painted Drum
“Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.” PeopleLifeKindMadeLife IsThree Author:Louise Erdrich
“You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.” PeopleFeelsYearsFeltHurtSawsEasierDiedIt HurtsOld PeopleWhipsLashes Author:Louise Erdrich
“Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.” PeopleMomentsHandsEyeFormMotherFoundFatherVoiceDoorsCarHairAddRoseMilesChairsThat MomentBentOld PeopleMother And Father Author:Louise Erdrich
“There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.” PeopleThinkingBookUseTitles Author:Louise Erdrich
“I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.” PeopleWayWantLooksRememberYoungWeaponsMassDestructionStrikesBullshitIdealismZealWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionOminous Author:Louise Erdrich
“It's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether people associate it or not, fear of immigration is completely related to climate change, because the mass migrations that are happening, the war in Syria, all of these structural human migrations are related to climate change.” PeopleWarRealClimate ChangeTrackImmigrationSyria Author:Louise Erdrich
“As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration and immigration are great for corporate and governmental control over people, and we have to contend with that. I should say, I see corporate control behind everything that the government is working on right now.” PeopleCrisisImmigrationCatastrophe Author:Louise Erdrich
“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.” PeopleWayWellsDogColdReturnSingingMadBottomHarmEmptinessBitingMad Dogs Author:Louise Erdrich
“some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.” PeopleWorldWayEarthCommonSkyRomanticFinishedCommon SenseStoppingHolding Back Author:Louise Erdrich
“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.” PeopleMadeBookMightJobsReadingNextForcePleasurePoorMistakeRichReaderDiscoveryCaughtObsessedIsolationCollectionsCaught UpPersonaSubversiveDoingsConsolingReading Life Author:Louise Erdrich
“It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.” PeopleWritingImpossibleIndianNativeSanityAmerican Indian Author:Louise Erdrich
“You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.” PeopleKnowsFallKnowingInvisibleHoles Author:Louise Erdrich
“People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.” PeopleEvilForgetGood And Evil Author:Louise Erdrich
