Catch-up quotes
Quotes from Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
"The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know."
"Of course, you can't lie forever. Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad. Lies rot and stink up the joint."
"I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents."
"When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing."
"'I used to think that the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The whole world is only broken into two tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.'"
"I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardon, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good."
"I mean, you have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too."