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 ErdrichThey were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise ErdrichShe had always been a readerโฆ but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, sheโd been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the nextโฆThe pleasure of this sort of life โ bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life โ had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after anotherโฆThat she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.
Louise Erdrich