{"author":"Louise Erdrich","author_id":"Louise+Erdrich","total_quotes":59,"quotes":[{"text":"Some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.","author":"Louise Erdrich","tags":["fall","hole","life","people"],"id":1975,"author_id":"Louise+Erdrich"},{"text":"Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west.The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.","author":"Louise Erdrich","tags":["death","emotion","emptiness","love","simplicity"],"id":5357,"author_id":"Louise+Erdrich"},{"text":"The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.","author":"Louise Erdrich","tags":["family","history"],"id":8024,"author_id":"Louise+Erdrich"},{"text":"They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were  they all fused into a single stubbornness.","author":"Louise Erdrich","tags":["creating","positive","change"],"id":9042,"author_id":"Louise+Erdrich"},{"text":"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.","author":"Louise Erdrich","tags":["life-lessons","life-philosophy","love"],"id":11431,"author_id":"Louise+Erdrich"},{"text":"Wherever the family was, these two dogs, both six-year-old shepherd mixes, took up their posts at the central coming-and-going point. Gil called them concierge dogs. And it's true, they were inquisitive and accommodating. But they were not fawning or overly playful. They were watchful and thoughtful. Irene thought they had gravitas. Weighty demeanors. She thought of them as diplomats. She had noticed that when Gil was about to lose his temper one of the dogs always appeared and did something to divert his attention. Sometimes they acted like fools, but it was brilliant acting. Once, when he was furious about a bill for the late fees for a lost video, one of the dogs had walked right up to Gil and lifted his leg over his shoe. Gil was shouting at Florian when the piss splattered down, and she'd felt a sudden jolt of pride in the dog.","author":"Louise Erdrich","tags":["dogs","family","humor"],"id":27024,"author_id":"Louise+Erdrich"},{"text":"Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.","author":"Louise Erdrich","tags":["loss","sadness"],"id":29936,"author_id":"Louise+Erdrich"},{"text":"Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the very young.","author":"Louise Erdrich","tags":["old-age","sleep"],"id":31265,"author_id":"Louise+Erdrich"},{"text":"Delphine began to read with a mad attention when she wanted to talk to Clarisse. She saw that in her life there was a woman-shaped hole, a cutout that led to a mysterious place. Through it, her mother, then Eva, and now Clarisse had walked. If only she could plunge her arms through and drag them back.","author":"Louise Erdrich","tags":["loss"],"id":31309,"author_id":"Louise+Erdrich"},{"text":"And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.","author":"Louise Erdrich","tags":["ideas","power-of-thoughts"],"id":58829,"author_id":"Louise+Erdrich"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}