Sherman Alexie: Trending quotes (page 2)

“She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.”

“We're all travelling heavy with illusions.”

“If it's fiction, then it better be true.”

“I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children”

“You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too.”

“Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.”

“Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling,' she used to say. 'Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?”

“Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".”

“I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.”

“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.”

“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.”

“I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?”

“When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.”

“When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.”

“Grief is when you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and cheese tastes like sawdust, and you can't even jerk off because it seems like too much trouble.”

“We only know how to lose and be lost.”

“Books and beer are the best and worst defense.”

“Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.”

“I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.”