"The Round House" Quotes
A Native American boy seeks justice for his mother's assault on a North Dakota reservation.
fiction | 323 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
Some things don't heal. They break, and you live with the pieces.
I had made the mistake of thinking that I was alone.
I was learning that when you're with people you can be lonely, and when you're alone you can be together.
The hardest thing to take is the slow realization that you saved a life by taking it.
Each day is a journey. We come out of the night into the day. All creativity awakens at this primal threshold where light and darkness test and bless each other.
There is a pattern that is more subtle than the pattern that connects. How we suffer, how we are delighted, when we hurt, and what we use to protect ourselves, when and how we find courage.
There are many ways to be haunted, not all of them supernatural.
Love doesn't require a reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
When you love someone you've got to trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point?
We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been—a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time.





