Linda Hogan (writer)

“It was here, in religion, that all their sorrow came out. Moses could hear the Indian preacher speak, "And when the spirit touches us, there won't be any more danger here on earth," said the evangelist. "No mean spirits walking this land, no smallness in people, no heartaches, no sorrow, nor any pain." Moses knew the man's arms were raised up before the sad adults, and he heard the congregation cry out, "Amen," and in that word they were bound together. (p 71)”

“We have storiesas old as the great seasbreaking through the chest,flying out the mouth,noisy tongues that once were silenced,all the oceans we containcoming to light”

“I am done with weeping.The bones of this body say, dance.Dance the story of life”

“At night, alone,the world is a river in me.”

“Blessed are they who listenwhen no one is left to speak.”