The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

It was like some kind of prison-work farm for our liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviors.

And for some reason I don’t understand, lonely white people love to hang around lonelier Indians.

They want a better life for my sister and me. My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something.

know that death is never added to death; it multiplies.