Quotes from Sherman Alexie

And it's not the good stuff that I recall. No. It's the most traumatic shit that plays in the 3D IMAX Theater of My Mind.

I wasn't afraid of the dark nearly as much as I was afraid of the monsters who hunted by night and day.

Death is always incongruous.

There is a good day to die and there is a good day to play the piano.

My mother and grandmother's conversation doesn't belong in the cloud.   That old song is too sacred for the Internet.   So

Yep, now even the teachers were treating me like an idiot. I shrank back into my chair and remembered when I used to be a human being. I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.

Grief is scary and beautiful, too, I thought, but did not text.

all about reaction as opposed to action.

But I don't know how much joy she experienced while loving me. I don't know how much joy I was capable of feeling or providing.

One morning she sewed while her son and husband watched television. It was so quiet that when her son released a tremendous fart, a mouse, startled from his hiding place beneath my aunt's sewing chair, ran straight up her pant leg.

I am still looking for a job. They keep telling me I don't have enough experience. But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience? Oh, well.

Joey and Big Ed loved each other with the kind of straight-boy-devotion that started wars, terror attacks, and video game companies.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind 'is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time.' Do you believe this is true? And is it also true that you once said, 'The only time white people tell the truth is when they keep their mouths shut'?

But O, the last track Was the vessel that contained The most devotion and pain And made promises that you couldn't take back.

Son, things have never been like how you think they used to be.

And I'm to blame for that. I made that mess. Because I am the Amateur of Forgiveness.

I would steal horses for you, if there were any left

It's not whether you win or lose, it's about how you play the game.

I'm not an Indian warrior chief. I'm not some demure little Indian woman healer talking spider this, spider that, am I? I'm not babbling about the four directions. Or the two-legged, four-legged, and winged. I'm talking like a twentieth-century Indian woman. Hell, a twenty-first century Indian, and you can't handle it, you wimp.

Have I chosen friends because they smell like absence?

So maybe they are mute with post-traumatic stress. Maybe they don't know how to talk about Mike. I often wonder why I'm the one who remembers All the pain. Why am I the one who remains obsessed By the bloody nose, but rarely remembers any joy?

the earth is our grandmother and that technology has become our mother and that they both hate each other.

walked back into the house to feed myself and my illusions.

There are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.