Sherman Alexie: Trending quotes (page 3)

“I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.”

“We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.”

“The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.”

“She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.”

“… there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them…”

“That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.”

“Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.”

“He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous”

“My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.”

“Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.”

“At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.”

“If I wasn't writing poems, I'd be washing my hands all the time.”

“I'm a poet who can whine in meter”

“And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.”

“In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.”

“She told me that every other step was just for me.'
But that's only half of the dance,' I said.
Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy.”

“… And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.”

“Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)”

“But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.”