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quotespile · 2 months

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Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Louise Erdrich, Tales of Burning Love

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fairydrowning · 11 months

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"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could."

– Louise Erdrich, "The Painted Drum"

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perfectquote · 5 months

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You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

Louise Erdrich

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derangedrhythms · 6 months

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Also, as I was finding, this dimming season sharpens one. The trees are bare. Spirits stir in the stripped branches. November supposedly renders thin the veil.

Louise Erdrich, from 'The Sentence'

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thehopefulquotes · 4 months

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You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

Louise Erdrich

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thoughtkick · 5 months

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You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

Louise Erdrich

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quotemadness · 11 months

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You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

Louise Erdrich

#Louise Erdrich #quotes #quote #lit #literature

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elwenyere · 2 years

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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.”

—Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

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loveisdamnation · 1 year

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#crumpch #parallels #lyric parallels #poetry #web weaving #literature #sylvia plath #susan sontag #mary oliver #linda pastan #andrea gibson #maggie smith #louise erdrich #clementine von radics

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sageandscorpiongrass · 7 months

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Hello! If you'd like, can you please do a web weave about being scared of the pain and nostalgia that comes with a phase of your life ending and a new one beginning?

I suppose all you can really do is look forward.

Sorry for using Up the Wolves in another one of my webs. It will... probably happen again.

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#webweaving #webweaving change #compilation #web weave #web weaving poetry #parallels #prose #requests #literature #on nostalgia #༺✿ web weaves by basil ✿༻#alida nugent #margaret atwood #antoine de saint exupéry #miriam adeney #tennesee williams #louise erdrich #khaled hosseini #a.m. homes

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stay-close · 4 days

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You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

Louise Erdrich

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quotespile · 6 months

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Someone has been tortured on my behalf. Someone has been tortured on your behalf. Someone in this world will always be suffering on your behalf. If it comes your time to suffer, just remember. Someone suffered for you. That is what taking on a cloak of human flesh is all about, the willingness to hurt for another human being.

Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God

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entheognosis · 1 month

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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich