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

“Each time she boarded the train that would take her away from Linares and from Francisco, she was beset with the unpleasant feeling that, in her absence, their relationship would change and she would be left outside, like an intruder in her own home, a voyeur who can only look in through a crack in a closed window. She was afraid that, far away from each other, she would change and he would change in opposite directions, so that they would never find one another again. She was afraid that one day they would look at each other and not recognize each other's voices, intentions, looks, or the warmth of their bodies in the bed.”
― 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