Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.
Louise ErdrichSociety is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.
Louise ErdrichOur tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.
Louise ErdrichWe passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
Louise ErdrichI work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.
Louise ErdrichIt's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether people associate it or not, fear of immigration is completely related to climate change, because the mass migrations that are happening, the war in Syria, all of these structural human migrations are related to climate change.
Louise Erdrich