War Dances
Sherman Alexie
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.”
“Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies.”
“Standing on the shore, I prayed for my dead. I praised them. I stupidly hoped that the lake would heal my small wounds. Then I stripped off my clothes and waded naked into the water. Jesus, I don't want to die today or tomorrow, but I don't want to live forever.”
“I was young and frightened and craved respect and its ugly cousin, approval, so I did as I was told.”
“But none of them laughed as hard about my beautiful brain as I knew my father would have. I miss him, the drunk bastard. I would always feel closest to the man who had most disappointed me.”
“Your mother is a better man than me. Mothers are almost always better men than men are.”
“Nothing ever really happens, you know. Life is infinitesimal and incremental and inconsequential.”
“It really made me wish I was Roman or Greek, you know? A classical Greek god would have killed his lying, cheating father and then given him forgiveness. And a classical Greek god would have better abs, too. That's what Greek gods are all about, you know? Patricide and low body fat.”
“If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don't want to dance, then you're going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.”
“My mother once made a quilt from dozens of pairs of second- and third- and fourth- hand blue jeans that she bought us at Goodwill, the Salvation Army, Value Village, and garage sales. My late sister studied my mother's denim quilt and said, 'That's a lot of pants. There's been a lot of ass in those pants. This is a blanket of asses.”
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Book Keywords:
racial-politics, pain, social-commentary, philosophy
