359 Quotes by Louise Erdrich

I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.

Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.

[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book.

Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous.

All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.