"Tracks" Quotes
"Tracks" by Louise Erdrich follows the intertwined lives of two Native American families on a North Dakota reservation in the early 20th century.
fiction | 226 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I could not understand why men were so violent.
There are some who would have you believe that the human spirit is nothing but an empty, dark space. My soul is not empty. It is open and full, and it is light.
I am an old woman now, and I still think about the starling.
The love of the living is a way to remember the dead.
It was not the end. There are no endings.
They say that when you die, your skin keeps growing for a little while.
I felt a little sick and yet there was a force inside me that told me to go on, to continue, to live.
I am more beautiful than the sky.
What came to me then was not a dream, but a vision. I saw the world whole.
I knew that if I went, I would always be in their hearts.
