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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me QUOTES

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me QUOTES

1 " What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus had never rolled back the stone and risen from his tomb. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

2 " I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain? "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

3 " There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

4 " An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

5 " Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

6 " You’re always making up stuff from the past,” she said. “And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

7 " I would guess, perhaps too optimistically, that nearly ever racist believes it is morally wrong to be racist. And since nearly every person thinks of themselves as being moral, then a racist must consciously and subconsciously employ tortured logic in order to explain away their racism--in order to believe themselves to be nonracist. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

8 " I didn’t yet know that romantic heroes—famous and not—are usually aimless nomads in disguise. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

9 " ....Dear friends, I am often a lonely man,

Even in a room full of people who love me. Dear friends, my brain--
Unpredictable as it was--is even more unpredictable now.
But thank God for all of the ways in which we compensate.
For our deficiencies. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

10 " Death is always incongruous. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

11 " There are so many new skyscrapers being built in our city of rain, I wonder if everybody's spirit animal is now the construction crane. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

12 " My name is Sherman Alexie and I was born from loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss.

And loss. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

13 " Listen. I don't know how or when

My grieving will end, but I'm always
Relearning how to be human again. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

14 " What about me?” I asked. “Am I mean?” “You aren’t mean to me with words,” she said. “You’re mean to me with your silences. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

15 " This is who I am. This is who I have always been.

I am in pain.

I am always in pain.

But I always find my way to the story. And I always find my way home. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

16 " Is the air okay?" I texted.

"It hurts a little to breathe," my sister texted back. "But we're okay."

Jesus, I thought, is there a better and more succinct definition of grief than It hurts a little to breathe, but we're okay? "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

17 " The world is too fucking big. Sometimes, I can't even carry myself through all the love and fear. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

18 " But a person can be genocided-can have every connection to his past severed- and live to be an old man whose rib cage is a haunted house built around his heart. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

19 " So I wonder: Will a person who has drowned,
Or almost drowned, always feel
Like they're drowning,
Even after they've been saved? "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

20 " So we must forgive all those Who trespass against us? Fuck that shit. I’m not some charitable trust. There are people I will hate Even after I’m ashes and dust. "

― Sherman Alexie , You Don't Have to Say You Love Me