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Quotes from Power — Linda Hogan

born 1947 United States

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Would it have been a different world if someone had believed our lives were as important as theory and gold? (Chapter 7, p179)

Power (1999)

This is the place where clouds are born and I am floating. (beginning of Chapter 1)

Power (1999)

Whatever has ended, whatever has begun, is strong in the air. (Chapter 3, p73)

Power (1999)

Believing and knowing are two lands distant from each other. (Chapter 2, p40)

Power (1999)

It’s a good feeling to be empty-handed, to feel naked as if a whole life was blown off my back by a storm. (Chapter 5, p105)

Power (1999)

The place itself seems alive. Here, the land itself seems to have a sound, the soft brush of a breeze. (Chapter 6, p159)

Power (1999)

It’s as if everything breathes, hard and desperate, the land, the house, the water.
The wind is a living force. We Taiga call the wind Oni. It enters us all at birth and stays with us all through life. It connects us to every other creature.

Power (1999)

“What do you know and what do you just believe?” I thought about that for the longest time. I know nothing, I only believe in things. (Chapter 3, p67)

Power (1999)

The people, are watching Ama, studying her. She’s a curiosity. She is a human being of a different kind. She makes them doubt, I see that. (Chapter 5, p134)

Power (1999)

it has always been Ama’s skill to live with the world and not against it. (Chapter 3, p47)

Power (1999)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Linda Hogan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.