"The Painted Drum" Quotes
"The Painted Drum" follows the journey of a sacred Ojibwe drum as it passes through the lives of different characters.
fiction | 304 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
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 can't own a drum. You can't own a dream.
The drum is a holy thing. You can't own it. You can't buy it. It's a living thing.
It's hard to explain what you feel when you find something so beautiful that you know it was meant to be yours, that you were meant to be its caretaker.
The drum is not just an instrument. It's a way of life.
The things we most love are the sweetest when we think we may lose them.
A drum holds something inside it. It is something that holds us. We put our heart into it and it carries us.
It's one thing to have a dream, another to do the work it takes to make it real.
The drum knows more than I do.
The drum is the heartbeat of the earth. It is the sound of life.
