History works itself out in the living.

- Louise Erdrich

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go …

- Louise Erdrich

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

- Louise Erdrich

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to…

- Louise Erdrich

People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

- Louise Erdrich

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to…

- Louise Erdrich

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

- Louise Erdrich

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 Erdrich

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 …

- Louise Erdrich