Some have ideas. You know how old chickens scratch and gabble. That’s how the tales started, all the gossip, the wondering, all the things people said without knowing and then believed, since they heard it with their own ears, from their own lips, each word.

— Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich Quotes

There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.

— Louise Erdrich

I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that’s not saying it’s not there. And that is faith for you. It’s belief even when the gods don’t deliver.

— Louise Erdrich

You never know where you’re going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.

— Louise Erdrich

Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Louise Erdrich

Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

— Louise Erdrich

Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don’t have it.

— Louise Erdrich

Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Louise Erdrich

The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

— Louise Erdrich

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Louise Erdrich

By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises – full of holes.

— Louise Erdrich

I truly think that you can’t go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can’t go and wrestle it to the ground.

— Louise Erdrich

Be lovely and do no harm.

— Louise Erdrich

If life’s a joke, then suicide’s a bad punch line.

— Louise Erdrich

A woman’s body is the gate to this life. A man’s body is the gate to the next life.

— Louise Erdrich

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

— Louise Erdrich

People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

— Louise Erdrich

I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times – to know and be predictable to ourselves.

— Louise Erdrich
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