Louise Erdrich Quotes

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

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