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

“Be Still, be still, she would say between her teeth, but Arnold loved his body too much to remain still.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“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

“I realise that you were not born with a predetermined capacity for wonder, as I’d believed. I realise that you fed it up yourself from tiny pieces of the world. I realise it’s up to me to follow your example and nurture my own wonder, morsel by morsel by morsel.”
― Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither