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likely from the novel 'LaRose' (2016) but need confirmation and page numbers

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collected these from other quotes websites but I haven't seen a searchable online version of the book yet to confirm them and add page numbers

LaRose (2016)

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  • We love you, don’t cry. Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.
  • Getting blown up happened in an instant; getting put together took the rest of your life.
  • There was the unspeakable neatness of military preparation for violence
  • The worst kind of loneliness gripped him. The kind you feel alongside another person.
  • Loss, dislocation, disease, addiction, and just feeling like the tattered remnants of a people with a complex history. What was in that history? What sort of knowledge? Who had they been? What were they now? Why so much fucked-upness wherever you turned?
  • Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal repercussions, was superior to any other form of power.
  • Sometimes energy of this nature, chaos, ill luck, goes out in the world and begets and begets. Bad luck rarely stops with one occurrence. All Indians know that. To stop it quickly takes great effort,
  • In English there was a word for every object. In Ojibwe there was a word for every action. English had more shades of personal emotion, but Ojibwe had more shades of family relationships.
  • There were so many sensations in his body that he couldn't feel them all at once, and each, as soon as he felt it, slipped away into the past.

A23423413 (talk) 11:42, 24 December 2024 (UTC)Reply