Solar Storms Quotes

“tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.”
― Linda Hogan, Solar Storms

“Perhaps it was the word "God" that was inviting to me, a word I thought I knew too much about. The one who had tortured Job, who had Abraham lift the ax to his son, who, disguised as a whale, had swallowed Jonah. I know now that the name does not refer to any deity, but means simply to call out and pray, to summon.”
― Linda Hogan, Solar Storms

“I went inside and sat down on a wooden chair beside her, remembering a story Tulik had once told me about men, the human people, who wanted what all the other creatures had. They went to the large bird and said they wanted to fly. They were granted this wish. They went to the mole and said they wanted to tunnel, and this they were able to do. Last, they went to the water and said, We must have this unbound manner of living. The water said, You have asked for too much, and then all of it was taken away from them. With all their wishes, they had forgotten to ask to become human beings.”
― Linda Hogan, Solar Storms

“And then we heard the train from a long ways off. It was how sound traveled her, where sometimes a sound from miles away seemed close at hand, and at other times a person in the same room sounded far away, distant and remote.”
― Linda Hogan, Solar Storms