592 Quotes by Sherman Alexie

And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.

And that’s when I knew that I was going to be okay.

I thought maybe if you wore different clothes at school,′ Paul said, ‘maybe you could start a trend. You’d be original.’ ‘Oh, my God,’ she said. ‘It’s high school, Dad. People get beat up for being original.

Seattle is Sweden! Extremely liberal, progressive, and very white, with a strong undercurrent of racism.

If human beings possessed endless possibilities, then cities contained exponential hopes.

Each of us – rich and poor, gay and straight, black and white – we are fragile and finite. We all go through this glorious life without guarantees, without promises of rescue or redemption. We have freedom of speech and religion, and the absolute freedom to leave behind our loved ones, or to force them to unhappily pursue us.

Can a writer forget something that he’s written in one of his own books? Yes, of course.