Julie Eilén

“Breathing dreams like air”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“When men decide in their secretly dark or hungry hearts to work their own will, there is little that can stop them. They have inner weather, sometimes unpredictable.”
― Linda Hogan, People of the Whale

“For every inch of skin, there is memory. Devils are so made. Saints, too, if you believe in them. His humanity has been broken as an old walking stick that once held up a crippled man named Thomas. He realizes the stick and the man are one thing and he can fall. He has violated the laws beneath the laws of men and countries, something deeper, the earth and the sea, the explosions of trees. He has to care again. He has to be water again, rock, earth with its new spring wildflowers and its beautiful, complex mosses.”
― Linda Hogan

“All the stories live in our bodies, he thinks. Every last one.”
― Linda Hogan, People of the Whale