# Quote — Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit

> "Right or wrong. For us, it is such a simple thing, only a matter of whether a wrong has been done, or someone harmed. But they have books filled with words, with rules about how the story can and cannot be spoken. There is not room enough, nor time, to search for the real story that lies beneath the rest." (p341)

- Author: [Linda Hogan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/linda-hogan.md)
- Book: [Mean Spirit](https://www.leafyquotes.com/linda-hogan/mean-spirit.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linda_Hogan_(writer)#Part_Two) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/linda-hogan/mean-spirit/right-or-wrong

## More from this book

> The next day as he rode on toward the bluffs, Stace Red Hawk felt a renewal of faith, the kind of feeling that comes to a man in silence, when he takes notice that a tree is older than himself, and that it will remain when he is gone. (p 230)

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> In spite of the wedding, it was a year of separations. Not only were people turning away from one another, but there were other splittings, mind from heart, body from spirit. Some broke quickly, weeping openly and without shame in public places. In others...the changes were barely visible. (p 170)

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> he glanced toward them, swallowed, and said quietly, "So sorry...It's not me doing it. It's not even the leasers. It's what is legal."
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> Belle sat down. "Why is it that so many crimes are backed up by your laws?"

p. 305 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/linda-hogan/mean-spirit/he-glanced-toward.md)