Consequences of Knowledge

When you are small, you know nothing. When you are big, there is too much to understand.

Louise Erdrich – Shadow Tag

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

Louise Erdrich – Shadow Tag

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

Louise Erdrich – Shadow Tag

Art, like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

Louise Erdrich – Shadow Tag

In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body’s interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers’ bodies are the boundaries and the passageways to our own.

Louise Erdrich – Shadow Tag