6 Quotes by Cherie Dimaline

When we heal our land, we are healed also.

We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dreams behind for the next generation to stumble across.

I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew to be true.

Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you’re not the one that’ll be alive to see it.

Out here stars were perforations revealing the bleached skeleton of the universe through a collection of tiny holes.

Do you think circumstances make people turn bad? Or that people make circumstances bad to begin with?