“I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.” WayFeelsI CanBookSometimesEnoughMomentsHomeFallReadingImaginePaperPapersOverflowRight Moment Book:Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors Source: Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors
“To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.” ThinkingWayArtTogetherPastPoliticalPassionPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessLove And Passion Author:Louise Erdrich
“I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.” WayBoysChildhoodRestrictionBicycle Author:Louise Erdrich
“I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.” WayBookStoriesTogetherViewsPoint Of View 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
“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
“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.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantLoveConfusedNew WaysDeep Down Author:Louise Erdrich
“There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.” WayParentAbandoned Author:Louise Erdrich
