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The Sentence QUOTES

The Sentence QUOTES

1 " I love statistics because they place what happens to a scrap of humanity, like me, on a worldwide scale. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

2 " 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. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

3 " The door is open. Go. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

4 " When a baby falls asleep in your arms you are absolved. The purest creature alive has chosen you. There’s nothing else. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

5 " I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

6 " 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. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

7 " Small bookstores have the romance of doomed intimate spaces about to be erased by unfettered capitalism. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

8 " The world was filling with ghosts. We were a haunted country in a haunted world. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

9 " There’s a word for your impulse, Louise. Cacoëthes, I said to her. The urge to do something somewhat wrong. Not something unspeakable or horrific. Just something you know is a bad idea. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

10 " it’s grandma food, ‘bad for the arteries but good for the heart. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

11 " I’m still not strictly rational. How could I be? I sell books. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

12 " She died instantly, said Kateri, implying she’d not had time to use a bookmark. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

13 " I need a word, a sentence. The door is open. Go. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

14 " haunted by image after image. People kneeling, beaten. People singing, beaten. Mothers, beaten. Fathers, beaten. Young, beaten. Old, knocked down or beaten. If you approached the police, beaten. If you ran away, kettled, then beaten. Pollux had known good people, seen lives saved by his fellow patrol officers. So who was doing the beating? The uniforms or those inside them? How was it that protests against police violence showed how violent police really "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

15 " The world can go on without me. Here I shall be held by love. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

16 " Short Perfect Novels Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabel Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson Sula, by Toni Morrison The Shadow-Line, by Joseph Conrad The All of It, by Jeannette Haine Winter in the Blood, by James Welch Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald First Love, by Ivan Turgenev Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf Waiting for the Barbarians, by J. M. Coetzee Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

17 " Every world-destroying project disrupts something intimate, tangible, and Indigenous, "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

18 " You can’t get over things you do to other people as easily as you get over things they do to you. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

19 " Books for Banned Love Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje Euphoria, by Lily King The Red and the Black, by Stendahl Luster, by Raven Leilani Asymmetry, by Lisa Halliday All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides The Vixen, by Francine Prose Legends of the Fall, by Jim Harrison The Winter Soldier, by Daniel Mason "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence

20 " Maybe this was what being in a pandemic brought forth. When everything big is out of control, you start taking charge of small things. "

― Louise Erdrich , The Sentence