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“Things which do not grow and change are dead things.”
― Louise Erdrich

“What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year

“...don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience...”
― Louise Erdrich

“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, Love Medicine

“Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.”
― Louise Erdrich, LaRose

“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, The Plague of Doves

“When we’re young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

“Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.”
― Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine