"There There" Quotes
"There There" follows the interconnected lives of twelve characters as they prepare for the Big Oakland Powwow, each grappling with their own identity and history as Native Americans living in urban America.
fiction | 294 pages | Published in 2018
Quotes
Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield, not one of the bears, but the shield, the protector, the mother, the grandmother, the great-grandmother, the great-great-grandmother, on back many generations.
He wasn’t sure why, but he felt a little more calm, a little more like everything was going to be okay, at least for the moment, at least as long as he could hold onto the feeling.
What he had mistaken for anger was actually concern.
He couldn’t remember the last time they’d sat and talked.
There’s the thing you do, the thing you are known for, and when you finally do it, when you finally do the very thing you’ve been known for, you don’t feel like you thought you would.
The thing he was finding about getting older is that there are not a lot of things to find out anymore. He was who he was, and that was that.
And the way the drum made him feel. He felt like he was part of something, like he was something at all, like he belonged to something.
He looked at the drum and thought, I don’t even know how to do that, and he felt a little lost, like he didn’t know who he was, like he’d been pretending to be someone else for a long time.
He felt like the drum was talking to him, and he wanted to talk back. He didn’t know what he would say, but he knew he wanted to say something, to do something.
The hardest thing about the road to sobriety is that the road is a straight line, it doesn’t have dips or curves.
