Quotes by Louise Erdrich
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
It was enough just to sit there without words.
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.
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.
