Ownership in History

Memory is a hunter on a plain with many shadows.

Louise Erdrich – Shadow Tag

I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me… I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell.

Louise Erdrich – Shadow Tag

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

Louise Erdrich – Shadow Tag

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you’d be doomed.

Louise Erdrich – Shadow Tag

I was your cure and you were my disease. I was saving you; and you were killing me.

Louise Erdrich – Shadow Tag