We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
Louise Erdrichi want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.
Louise ErdrichWhat happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
Louise ErdrichHere is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.โจ Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
Louise ErdrichWe have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is the illusion of the healthy and the protected. Of sedate lovers. For the body has emotions it conceives and carries through without concern for anyone or anything else. Love is one of those, I guess. Going back to something very old knit into the brain as we were growing. Hopeless. Scorching. Ordinary.
Louise Erdrich