It took men quite a while to have the courage to look at things differently. - Linda Hogan

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. (p105)

There are such cruel tricks I have wondered about in nature, the way a whale must surface to breathe in the presence of its waiting killers, the way the white tails of deer and rabbit are so easily seen as they run from danger. There is something, too, in some human beings that wants to die, that drives us to our own destruction. There is something that makes us pretend to be less than we are, less than the other creatures with their grace and dignity. Perhaps it is this that makes us bow down to an angry god when we might better have knelt at the altar of our own love. (p344)

"The law is on their side because it's their law." (p111)