The Plague of Doves
Louise Erdrich
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
“What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.”
“Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.”
“The music was more than music- at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous. Those powerful moments of true knowledge that we have to paper over with daily life. The music tapped the back of our terrors, too. Things we'd lived through and didn't want to ever repeat. Shredded imaginings, unadmitted longings, fear and also surprisingly pleasures. No, we can't live at that pitch. But every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware. And this realization was in the music, somehow, or in the way Shamengwa played it.”
“I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.”
“Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.”
“There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.”
“What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.”
“He was a bad thing waiting for a worse thing to happen.”
“But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.”
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