Louise Erdrich Quotes
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So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?
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I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.
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I live on the margin of just about everything. I'm a marginal person, and I think that is where I've become comfortable. I'm marginally there in my native life. I can do as much as I can, but I'm always German, too, you know, and I'm always a mother. That's my first identity, but I'm always a writer, too.
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Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.
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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.
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It was just enough to sit there without words.
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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.
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I have never fully exorcised shames that struck me to the heart as a child except through written violence, shadowy caricature, and dark jokes.