The Business of Fancydancing Quotes

“Everyone I have lost
in the closing of a door
the click of the lock

is not forgotten, they
do not die but remain
within the soft edges
of the earth, the ash

of house fires and cancer
in sin and forgiveness
huddled under old blankets

dreaming their way into
my hands, my heart
closing tight like fists.

- "Indian Boy Love Song #1”
― Sherman Alexie, The Business of Fancydancing

“and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two
depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .”
― Sherman Alexie, The Business of Fancydancing

“she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep
roots buried in the earth
she told me the old stories

how time never mattered
when she died
they gave me her clock”
― Sherman Alexie, The Business of Fancydancing

“I wasn't there when the old Indian man from Worley said it, but I know it must be true: Every highway in the world crosses some reservation, cuts it in half.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Business of Fancydancing