The Toughest Indian in the World Quotes

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian In The World

“If it's fiction, then it better be true.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World

“When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World

“Instead, I woke early the next morning, before sunrise, and went out into the world. I walked past my car. I stepped onto the pavement, still warm from the previous day’s sun. I started walking. In bare feet, I traveled upriver toward the place where I was born and will someday die. At that moment, if you had broken open my heart you could have looked inside and seen the thin white skeletons of one thousand salmon.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World

“What do you have to worry about? That you're lonely? That you have a mortgage? That your wife doesn't love you? F you, F you. I have to worry about having enough to eat!”
― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World

“You have to treat your car with love. And I don’t mean love of an object. You see, that’s just wrong. That’s materialism. You have to love your car like it’s sentient being, like it can love you back. Now, that’s some deep-down agape love.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World

“Seymour looked around the Tucson McDonald's. There were white people and Mavajos; there were people who preferred their Quarter Pounders with cheese and those who didn't care for cheese at all; and there were those who desperately wish that McDonald's would introduce onion rings to its menu.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World