Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Votes: 20
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. Votes: 7
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. Votes: 6
...don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience... Votes: 5
Be lovely and do no harm. Votes: 0
Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware. Votes: 0
He had a thousand-year-old stare. Votes: 0
Hunger steals the memory Votes: 0
I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions. Votes: 0
I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas. Votes: 0
I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated. Votes: 0
I spend most of my time writing. Votes: 0
I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not? Votes: 0
I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice. Votes: 0
Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between. Votes: 0
Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken. Votes: 0
The universe is transformation. Votes: 0
There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time. Votes: 0
We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going. Votes: 0
What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery. Votes: 0