Lori

“Everyone wanted to call her sweetheart. But she only danced for me. That’s how it was. She told me that every other step was just for me.” “But that’s only half of the dance,” I said. “Yeah,” my father said. “She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain’t healthy.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“It is lucky, she thinks, that we don’t feel all the love inside us every moment. We couldn’t breathe or walk or eat. It is lucky that it just flares up every now and again then resolves itself into a manageable dormancy.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Hole We're In

“It is lucky, she thinks, that we don’t feel all the love inside us every moment.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Hole We're In

“It is warm, soon to be cold, but that's in the future, maybe tomorrow, probably the next day and all the days after that. Today, now, I drink what I have, will eat what is left in the cupboard, while my mother finishes her quilt, piece by piece.
Believe me, there is just barely enough goodness in all of this.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven