"I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain?"
- Sherman Alexie
"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."
"They wanted to help me with my pain."
"I was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart."
"I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents."
"There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve."
"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."
"It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away."
"My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance."
"An Indian’s wealth Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save."