359 Quotes by Louise Erdrich

When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.

And here was the thing I didn’t understand then but do now – the loneliness. I was right, in that there was just the three of us. Or the two of us. Nobody else, not Clemence, not even my mother herself, cared as much as we did about my mother. Nobody else thought night and day of her. Nobody else knew what was happening to her. Nobody else was as desperate as the two of us, my father and I, to get our life back. To return to the Before.

Hunger steals the memory.

She was a woman of reserve.

He said that while Clemence adored the sacrament, he meditated on how it could be possible that humans had evolved out of apes only to sit gaping at a round white cracker.

Funny how often the Will of God puts a dollar in a pocket, said Dr. Ames.

And so, you see, her absence stopped time. What.

Whenever he thought he knew the truth it merged into another truth.

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