She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
Sherman AlexieWhen a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.
Sherman AlexieEvery movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
Sherman AlexieCorliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganized scholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardly soldier.
Sherman AlexieIn a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.
Sherman Alexie