Alisha

“But is it proper for the young to be so disappointing? ("Revival Road")”
― Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008

“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. ("Revival Road”
― Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008

“Oddly, while she was in Linares, she missed and worried about her daughters, and when she was with them in Monterrey, she felt the same or more so about the people from her life in Linares. It was as if she lived only half a life: incomplete in both places.”
― Sofía Segovia, El murmullo de las abejas

“He simply knew he did not belong in prison, although he admitted it had done him some good at eighteen, when he hadn't known how to be a criminal and so had taken lessons from professionals. Now that he knew all there was to know, however, he couldn't see the point of staying in prison and taking the same lessons over and over. "A hate factory" he called it once, and said it manufactured black poisons in his stomach that he couldn't get rid of although he poked a finger down his throat and retched and tried to be a clean and normal person in spite of everything. ("Scales")”
― Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008