Looking for a new book to read? Check in every Friday for a “Bee Happy” post, where I share reviews of books I’ve read or other book-themed lists. “Our love is a hurting delicacy, an old killer whiskey, a curse, and too beautiful for words.” “We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.” It was the thing his spirit had to haul.” He regarded his body with a tender regret. “He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger its petty, obliterating rage.

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse “The moonless sky was a rich, wild, blackness of stars.” As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.” “When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. There are moments you can’t give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can’t explain this to a child.” No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. “But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. “Getting blown up happened in an instant getting put together took the rest of your life.” “Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.” They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.” Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. Want a little taste? Here are 17 of her most beautiful quotes, in my opinion anyway! 17 Beautiful Quotes from Louise Erdrich Filled with beautiful language and prose, Erdrich’s books help give meeting to the things we can’t seem to put into words.

If you haven’t checked out any of her novels, I highly suggest you do. Her more popular books include Love Medicine, Tracks, The Beet Queen, The Bingo Palace, The Round House, and my personal favorite, The Painted Drum. If you’ve never heard of Louise Erdrich, allow me to introduce you.Īuthor of more than 20 novels (!), Erdrich writes about the Native American experience.

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