The Sentence
Louise Erdrich
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You can’t get over things you do to other people as easily as you get over things they do to you.”
“When a baby falls asleep in your arms you are absolved. The purest creature alive has chosen you. There’s nothing else.”
“Nothing makes Penstemon happier than handing a favorite book to someone who wants to read it. I’m the same. I suppose you could say this delights us although ‘delight’ is a word I rarely use. Delight seems insubstantial; happiness feels more grounded; ecstasy is what I shoot for; satisfaction is hardest to attain.”
“A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages are like being told to scale a cliff using a rope attached to nothing.”
“I love statistics because they place what happens to a scrap of humanity, like me, on a worldwide scale.”
“I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain.”
“Small bookstores have the romance of doomed intimate spaces about to be erased by unfettered capitalism.”
“The world was filling with ghosts. We were a haunted country in a haunted world.”
“She died instantly, said Kateri, implying she’d not had time to use a bookmark.”
“I need a word, a sentence. The door is open. Go.”
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Book Keywords:
children, childhood, motherhood, memories
