Sherman Alexie

“The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.”

“Summer coming like a car from down the highway.”

“My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.”

“There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.”

“I was emotionally erect.”

“But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costsAnd benefits of loving those who don't loveStrangers. After all, I'm often the odd one—The strangest stranger—in any field or room."He was weird" will be carved into my tomb.”

“The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.”