Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich is an Ojibwe writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a band of the Anishinaabe...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth7 June 1954
CountryUnited States of America
sound this-life
What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
lasts old-love kind
Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.
belief logical
I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
transformation universe
The universe is transformation.
ice ears fists
I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.
safety-pins clothes tears
Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
eye air giving
Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed.
running heart hands
Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
able emotion
There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
powerful permanent
Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
facts embellishment ifs
But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
father order opposites
The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.
night order next
This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.
evil moral poor
We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.