Quotes From "The Plague Of Doves" By Louise Erdrich

Freedom, I found is not only in the running but...
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Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands. Louise Erdrich
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The music was more than music- at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous. Those powerful moments of true knowledge that we have to paper over with daily life. The music tapped the back of our terrors, too. Things we'd lived through and didn't want to ever repeat. Shredded imaginings, unadmitted longings, fear and also surprisingly pleasures. No, we can't live at that pitch. But every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware. And this realization was in the music, somehow, or in the way Shamengwa played it. Louise Erdrich
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I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for. Louise Erdrich
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Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness. Louise Erdrich