359 Quotes by Louise Erdrich

I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive.

They're all the same-- the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor-- they all share a fundamental belief in the malleability of truth

I’d been a snowflake. Without my specialness, I melted,” she says.

The strong old woman was walking away, and in her step there was the sadness of parting with an old but dangerously foolish friend.

Our individual consciousnesses were sieves of the divine. We could only know what our minds could encompass safely.

She was a horse lover and she and Whitey kept a mean old paint, a fancy quarter horse/Arabian mix, a roan Appaloosa with one ghost eye named Spook, and a pony. So along with the whiskey and perfume and smoke, she often exuded faint undertones of hay, dust, and the fragrance of horse, which once you smell it you always miss it. Humans were meant to live with the horse.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

Fidelis was not a religious man, except when it came to his knives.

Now is it time to burn the house?