Horse Quotes - Page 19

• You spoil your horse, Halt said. Will glanced at him. You spoil yours. Halt considered the thought, then nodded. That's true.

  John Flanagan

  Halt, Said, Spoil

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• You speak horse?" Hazel asked. "Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mean a Neptune thing." "Then you and Arion should get along fine," Hazel said. "He's a son of Neptune too." Percy turned pale. "Excuse me?

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Son, Neptune

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• Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.

  E. M. Forster

  Rocks, Views, Sky

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.322, RosettaBooks

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• All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.

  e. e. cummings

  Gold, Dawn, Riding

  "All in green went my love riding" l. 1 (1923)

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• So…that’s like your pet monkey?” – Nick (The tiny horse snorted flames and whinnied at him.) “Easy, girl. You’d do well to show her respect. She can understand you, and she doesn’t take well to insults.” – Death “Sorry, Flicka. Didn’t mean to rattle your bridle.” – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Sorry, Mean

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• [O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit

  Margery Williams

  Real, People, Skins

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• Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced!

  R. A. Salvatore

  Ideas, Mind, Wizards

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.117, Wizards of the Coast

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• With his back to us, Sean tugs the halter from the mare's head. She kicks out, but he steps out of the way as if it were nothing at all. With a shake of her mane, she leaps mightily into the water. For a moment she struggles over the waves, and then she is swimming. Just a wild black horse in a deep blue sea full of the ashes of other dead boys.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Struggle, Swimming, Boys

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.330, Scholastic UK

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• I know it’s not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!" "My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow…" "Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!

  Terry Pratchett

  Mother, Men, Pigs

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• Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is.

  Anna Sewell

  Light, Hands, People

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.35, Mind Melodies

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• Like a horse, honey, somebody's gonna break you.' 'Never. Going. To. Happen.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Honey, Break, Happens

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• Want a sugar cube? [...] They're supposed to be for the horses, but who cares? They've got years to eat sugar, whereas you and I . . . well, if we see something sweet we better grab it quick. [...] You're absolutely terrifying me in that get-up. What happened to the pretty little-girl dresses?

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Sweet, Years

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• The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk a gallon of whole milk without his lactose-intolerance medicine: "Seven hundred and fifty miles per hour. Eight hundred. Eight hundred and three. Fast. very Fast.

  Rick Riordan

  Eight, Medicine, Space

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• The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.

  Jamie O'Neill

  Four, Way, Priests

  Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home

  Steven Spielberg

  Home, War Horse, Wherever You Are

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• I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest of horses outside your window and Puck Connolly in your bed and I'll buy from you instead of Malvern. That's your future for you.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Years, Bed, Yards

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• Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded. Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a horse,' she said sweetly taking a brief satisfaction in the shock on the septa's face.

  George R. R. Martin

  Thinking, Shoes, Satisfaction

  George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.77, Bantam

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• Do you really want to know why you lost?” I asked. “Do you really have an answer?” he countered. “You need to get off your horse and run with your men. You don’t have the stamina for a long fight. And find a lighter sword.” “But it was my uncle’s.” “You’re not your uncle.” “But I’m the King, and this is the King’s sword,” Cahil said. His brows creased together. He seemed confused. “So wear it to your coronation,” I said. “If you use it in battle, you’ll be wearing it to your funeral,” I said.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Running, Uncles, Kings

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• Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

  Margery Williams

  Hurt, Children, Real

  The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)

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• Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Men, Savages

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• That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.

  Janette Rallison

  Stars, Giving, Important

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.49, Penguin

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• Now i'd like to tell u i did something heroic like stand up against a raging team of fire-breathing horses with only my sword the truth is i ran.

  Rick Riordan

  Team, Fire, Breathing

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• New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

  Jim C. Hines

  Motorcycle, Fantasy, Treats

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• I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.

  Aime Cesaire

  Children, Rain, Communication

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• This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.

  Michael Morpurgo

  War, Butterfly, Eye

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