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Top 25 Cherie Dimaline Quotes (2026 Update)

Cherie Dimaline Quote: “I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew to be true.”

1. “I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew to be true.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you’re not the one that’ll be alive to see it.”

2. “Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you’re not the one that’ll be alive to see it.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “Do you think circumstances make people turn bad? Or that people make circumstances bad to begin with?”

3. “Do you think circumstances make people turn bad? Or that people make circumstances bad to begin with?”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dreams behind for the next generation to stumble across.”

4. “We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dreams behind for the next generation to stumble across.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “They never win when we remember.”

5. “They never win when we remember.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “Better to be in the forest, I thought. Where the dreams were shrouded in fog and cold and the group knew its order and stride by the weight of our want.”

6. “Better to be in the forest, I thought. Where the dreams were shrouded in fog and cold and the group knew its order and stride by the weight of our want.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “But for now, like always, we couldn’t sit around on the couches and contemplate our world and what might lie ahead. We were outside, getting ready.”

7. “But for now, like always, we couldn’t sit around on the couches and contemplate our world and what might lie ahead. We were outside, getting ready.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “Out here stars were perforations revealing the bleached skeleton of the universe through a collection of tiny holes.”

8. “Out here stars were perforations revealing the bleached skeleton of the universe through a collection of tiny holes.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “I felt content, maybe even a little more than that. I was alive and climbing a tree and a girl I was weak for was safe on the ground below. And I was doing something strong to keep her safe, to keep all of them safe. I felt old-timey, and something lush burst open in my chest.”

9. “I felt content, maybe even a little more than that. I was alive and climbing a tree and a girl I was weak for was safe on the ground below. And I was doing something strong to keep her safe, to keep all of them safe. I felt old-timey, and something lush burst open in my chest.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “When we heal our land, we are healed also.”

10. “When we heal our land, we are healed also.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “Sometimes the path in front of you alters. Sometimes it goes through some pretty dark territory. Just make sure it doesn’t change the intent of the trip. As long as the intent is good, nothing else matters. Not in these days, son.”

11. “Sometimes the path in front of you alters. Sometimes it goes through some pretty dark territory. Just make sure it doesn’t change the intent of the trip. As long as the intent is good, nothing else matters. Not in these days, son.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “When we finally convinced ourselves to move, to make the day real, the sky was a cerulean blue with a light gauze of striated clouds.”

12. “When we finally convinced ourselves to move, to make the day real, the sky was a cerulean blue with a light gauze of striated clouds.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of the dream, the bigger dream that held us all. Anything. Everything.”

13. “And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of the dream, the bigger dream that held us all. Anything. Everything.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “That isn’t our border. That’s an imaginary line drawn by politicians and land prospectors. The only thing we have to worry about is who the original people are so we can honor the lands we are on, and if we do that and remember to keep doing that, they don’t win. They never win when we remember.”

14. “That isn’t our border. That’s an imaginary line drawn by politicians and land prospectors. The only thing we have to worry about is who the original people are so we can honor the lands we are on, and if we do that and remember to keep doing that, they don’t win. They never win when we remember.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “People get it wrong. The magic’s not in the person. The magic is in the place. It just takes the right kind of person to pull it up.”

15. “People get it wrong. The magic’s not in the person. The magic is in the place. It just takes the right kind of person to pull it up.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “Christians were like house cats, really. Just leave out the sustenance and let them roam in a confined space where they think they’re free.”

16. “Christians were like house cats, really. Just leave out the sustenance and let them roam in a confined space where they think they’re free.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “She breathed deep, appreciating the moment of solitude. Silence in an outdoor space had a presence instead of an absence.”

17. “She breathed deep, appreciating the moment of solitude. Silence in an outdoor space had a presence instead of an absence.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “Over the years, without treaty and without wealth, the halfbreeds were moved away from the shorelines where million dollar cottages were built in a flurry of hammers on lumber, so many at one time it was as if the shore was standing to an ovation.”

18. “Over the years, without treaty and without wealth, the halfbreeds were moved away from the shorelines where million dollar cottages were built in a flurry of hammers on lumber, so many at one time it was as if the shore was standing to an ovation.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “The wasp sting of capitalism was left to grow malignant without proper care. And wasps can keep on stinging once they begin. They don’t die like bees, so they don’t have to be as committed to the damage. We as humans forgot our specific place and spread into every place instead. As if we were removed from consequence. As if we were untouchable. We couldn’t even imagine the Earth retaliating. And then it did.”

19. “The wasp sting of capitalism was left to grow malignant without proper care. And wasps can keep on stinging once they begin. They don’t die like bees, so they don’t have to be as committed to the damage. We as humans forgot our specific place and spread into every place instead. As if we were removed from consequence. As if we were untouchable. We couldn’t even imagine the Earth retaliating. And then it did.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “Whenever the old people got quieter in their volume and more precise in their words, Joan had learned to shut the hell up. So she did.”

20. “Whenever the old people got quieter in their volume and more precise in their words, Joan had learned to shut the hell up. So she did.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “Snowflakes tumbled down so huge and slow it was if they’d been cut from folded paper by a pair of delicate shears. The parking lot was a poem about white.”

21. “Snowflakes tumbled down so huge and slow it was if they’d been cut from folded paper by a pair of delicate shears. The parking lot was a poem about white.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “The tent was much bigger than it looked from the outside. The ceiling was high enough to be forgotten.”

22. “The tent was much bigger than it looked from the outside. The ceiling was high enough to be forgotten.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “People acted like it was inevitable – that my destiny was a ditch outside a cemetery from day one. But that’s not how I was born. That’s not how I lived.”

23. “People acted like it was inevitable – that my destiny was a ditch outside a cemetery from day one. But that’s not how I was born. That’s not how I lived.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “This is important. I need you to remember this: I was loved. I was profoundly and fully loved. This is critical, because people like to tell a version of stories where we were born to be neglected or forgotten or hurt.”

24. “This is important. I need you to remember this: I was loved. I was profoundly and fully loved. This is critical, because people like to tell a version of stories where we were born to be neglected or forgotten or hurt.”

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Cherie Dimaline Quote: “A creature who understands his own damn self and isn’t distracted by fear or pain: that’s the creature you don’t turn your back on.”

25. “A creature who understands his own damn self and isn’t distracted by fear or pain: that’s the creature you don’t turn your back on.”

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