“There are ways in, journeys to the center of a life, through time, through air, matter, dream, and thought. The ways in are not always mapped or charted, but sometimes being lost, if there is such a thing, is the sweetest place to be. And always, in this search, a person might find that she is already there, at the center of a world. It may be a broken world, but it is glorious nevertheless.”
The Woman Who Watches Over the World, Linda Hogan
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“This is a book about love. It didn’t begin that way. I sat down to write about pain and wrote, instead, about healing, history, and survival. The work revealed to me that there is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.”
The Woman Who Watches Over the World, Linda Hogan
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“…history, like geography, lives in the body and it is marrow-deep. History is our illness. It is recorded there, laid down along the tracks and pathways and synapses. I was only one of the fallen in a lineage of fallen worlds and people. Those of us who walked out of genocide by some cast of fortune still struggle with the brokenness of our bodies and hearts. Terror, even now, for many of us, is remembered inside us, history present in our cells that came from our ancestor’s cells, from bodies hated, removed, starved, and killed.”
The Woman Who Watches Over the World, Linda Hogan
