Sherman Alexie Quotes: 12

• If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

• He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

  The Toughest Indian in the World

• Poetry = Anger x Imagination

  One Stick Song

• I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.

  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

• Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together.You can do it.

  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

• What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

  Flight

• Everyone I have lost in the closing of a doorthe click of the lockis not forgotten, theydo not die but remainwithin the soft edgesof the earth, the ashof house fires and cancerin sin and forgivenesshuddled under old blanketsdreaming their way intomy hands, my heartclosing tight like fists.- "Indian Boy Love Song #1

  The Business of Fancydancing

• Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

• If it's fiction, then it better be true.

  The Toughest Indian in the World

• When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

• And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.

  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

• It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

  War Dances