592 Quotes by Sherman Alexie

I wasn’t afraid of the dark nearly as much as I was afraid of the monsters who hunted by night and day.

Seymour looked around the Tucson McDonald’s. There were white people and Mavajos; there were people who preferred their Quarter Pounders with cheese and those who didn’t care for cheese at all; and there were those who desperately wish that McDonald’s would introduce onion rings to its menu.

Hunger is my crime.

Branch by branch, Rowdy and I climbed toward the top of the tree, to the bottom of the sky.

If you want to make a white man cry, despite the amount of time it’s been since he last wept aloud, then all you have to do is employ “baseball” and “father” in three consecutive sentences.

Sir, in your thirty-nine years as a parent, you broke your children’s hearts, collectively and individually, 612 times and you did this without ever striking any human being in anger. Does this absence of physical violence make you a better man than you might otherwise have been?

He said his prayers just in case his parents had been wrong about God all those years.

Our love will be loud, and it will be bright.

Do you understand how one small dog – afraid of the wolves who had attacked him and those who would attack him anew – might stand on his hind legs, might evolve in a moment, so he could run away and never return?