Louise Erdrich

Quote link. Other quotes about: earth live world mother person: "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 personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace."
Quote link. Other quotes about: soul: "Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time belief sin single hard: "They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness."