Future Home of the Living God
Louise Erdrich
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The first thing that happens at the end of the world is that we don’t know what is happening.”
“We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.”
“Someone has been tortured on my behalf. Someone has been tortured on your behalf. Someone in this world will always be suffering on your behalf. If it comes your time to suffer, just remember. Someone suffered for you. That is what taking on a cloak of human flesh is all about, the willingness to hurt for another human being.”
“Exactly right—folded quietly and knitted in right along with the working DNA there is a shadow self. This won’t surprise poets. We carry our own genetic doubles, at least in part.”
“This is how the world ends, I think, everything crazy yet people doing normal things.”
“There were no colors. Everything was neutral. From this I know that hell is not black or fiery. It is an unvaried gray without promise.”
“Perhaps we are experiencing a reverse incarnation. A process where the spirit of the divine becomes lost in human physical nature. Perhaps the spark of divinity, which we experience as consciousness, is being reabsorbed into the boundless creativity of seething opportunistic life. A great wish courses through me. I am curious with desire. I want to see past my lifetime, past yours, into exactly what the paleontologist says will not exist: the narrative. I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I’ll never know how things turn out.”
“After a while, I asked who was in charge. Phil said God. I said that was the most terrifying thing I'd ever heard and he said, "Yeah, me too. That's why I bought the Bushmaster.”
“I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I’ll never know how things turn out.”
“I relax into a black unconsciousness. I dive in, submerse, and breathe oblivion, my favorite element.”
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Book Keywords:
story, life, future, death
