Quote

Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

Louise Erdrich

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Pins
Hidden
Safety
Filled
Tears
Clothes

More quotes by Louise Erdrich

Image
I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.
Louise Erdrich
Image
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.
Louise Erdrich
Image
At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a piece. As if the sky were a pattern of nerves and our thought and memories traveled across it. As if the sky were one gigantic memory for us all.
Louise Erdrich
Image
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
Louise Erdrich
Image
Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
Louise Erdrich
Image
I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
Louise Erdrich
Image
I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.
Louise Erdrich
Image
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
Louise Erdrich
Image
I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
Louise Erdrich
Image
I 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 Erdrich
Image
Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
Louise Erdrich
Image
The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.
Louise Erdrich
Image
I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
Louise Erdrich
Image
People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
Louise Erdrich
Image
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
Louise Erdrich
Image
Society 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 Erdrich
Image
We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
Louise Erdrich
Image
Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.
Louise Erdrich
Image
What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
Louise Erdrich
Image
Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.
Louise Erdrich