There is always, to everything, a before and after. (p 201) - Linda Hogan

It is a still day, everything silent. Even the wind isn't blowing. There is just a breeze of something living, like the breath of the universe. (p281)

First books, for many people, seem to be sort of autobiographical incursions into who they are, and what it means to be who they are.

There are traditions and laws that are beyond human. Just because it is drawn up on a piece of paper doesn't make something right, legal, ethical. I consider my own work to be traditionally centered.