So I guess you were hopelessly romantic and easily distracted, a B-plus mother, certainly good enough to get into Matriarchal State University but not quite good enough for St. Mary's College of the Blessed Womb Warriors.
Sherman AlexieTags: motherhood
Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
Sherman AlexieTags: questions-and-answers
...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.
Sherman AlexieTags: nostalgia
Fuck you,' Samuel said as he stole the ball, drove down the court, and went in for a two-handed, rattle-the-foundations, ratify-a-treaty, abolish-income-tax, close-the-uranium-mines monster dunk.
Sherman AlexieWhat’s so funny?’ asked Peone.
‘Catholic cops are funny,’ said Lester.
‘You were listening?’
‘Yeah.’
‘Yeah? Catholic Indians are funny.’
‘There’s lots of Catholic Indians.’
‘There’s lots of Catholic cops.
[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.
Sherman AlexieYou 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 AlexieShe’d wanted to completely shave her head: I don’t want long hair, I don’t want short hair, I don’t want hair at all, and I don’t want to be a girl or a boy, I want to be a yellow and orange leaf some little kid picks up and pastes in his scrapbook.
Sherman AlexieWhen you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
Sherman AlexieAs for romance, Frank had dated a few women over the years but found them to be too inconsistent and illogical, so he dated a few men and found them to be even more random and frightening.
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