#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

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When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence

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You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

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What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

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Life seems to flood by, taking our loves quickly in its flow. In the growth of children, in the aging of beloved parents, time’

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There were no colors. Everything was neutral. From this I know that hell is not black or fiery. It is an unvaried gray

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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

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In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself… Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil,...

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Where will you be my darling, the last time it snows on earth?

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How come we’ve got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms

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A man finds happiness so fleetingly, like the petals melting off a prairie rose. Even as you touch that feeling it dries up,...

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An enemy has to be defeated in battle, but an adversary’s different. You must outwit an adversary.

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