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Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1) QUOTES

Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1) QUOTES

1 " I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

2 " ...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

3 " Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

4 " Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

5 " How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

6 " Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

7 " So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

8 " Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

9 " The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

10 " Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart’s position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after – lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won’t ever come by such a bargain again. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

11 " I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

12 " You see I thought love got easier over, the years so it didn’t hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash. She loved him. She was jealous. She mourned him like the dead. And he just smiled into the air, trapped in the seams of his mind. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

13 " They moved in dance steps too intricate for the noninitiated eye to imitate or understand. Clearly they were of one soul. Handsome, rangy, wildly various, they were bound in total loyalty, not by oath, but by the simple, unquestioning belongingness of part of one organism. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

14 " Higher Power makes promises we all know they can't back up, but anybody ever go and slap an old malpractice suit on God? Or the U.S. government? No they don't. Faith might be stupid, but it gets us through. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

15 " His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

16 " Člověk se na život dívá jinak, když se zblízka setká se smrtí a porozumí svému srdci. Od té doby už vždycky nosíte svůj život jako šaty, co jste si koupili na dobročinném bazaru - lehce, protože si uvědomujete, že jste za ně doopravdy nic nezaplatili, i jako vzácnost, protože víte, že už si žádné tak výhodné nepořídíte. A máte taky pocit, že už je někdo nosil před váma a někdo je bude nosit po vás. Ještě to nedovedu vysvětlit, ale budu se o to snažit. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

17 " My petunias,” she tells me in a flat voice, “are none of your business. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

18 " Because we shared the loneliness that was one shape. Because I knew that in her old age she shared that same boat, where I had labored. She crested and sank in dark waves. Those waves were taking her onward, through night, through day, the water beating and slashing across her unknown path. She struggled to continue. She was traveling hard, and death was her light. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

19 " The snow fell deeper that Easter than it had in forty years, but June walked over it like water and came home. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)

20 " The heavy winds couldn’t blow her off course. She continued. Even when her heart clenched and her skin turned crackling cold it didn’t matter, because the pure and naked part of her went on. "

― Louise Erdrich , Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)