I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.

There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.

In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.