Horse Quotes - Page 23

• I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sea, Ears

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.37, Scholastic UK

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• I lost a horse today.' 'That sounds careless. What happened?' 'She jumped off a cliff.' 'A cliff! Is that normal?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sound, Today, Cliffs

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• Dear A & M, I talked to the manager of the Beauty Bar because I definitely saw you guys getting married against a hot pink backdrop, but he doesn't think we can fit more than fifty people inside and I'm thinking three hundred. How would you feel about getting married in the park? It might get cold, but you could ride a horse-drawn carriage to the ceremony. How do you feel about matching wedding crowns? -Isabelle

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, People, Guy

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• Dear Alec and Magnus, This is the first postcard of five. Don't freak out or anything, but I need you to send me $150,000 to cover the cost of: 1) Two diamanté crowns 2) 20 peacocks 3) 300 chocolate lollipops in the shape of your heads 4) My dress 5) 500 lbs of glitter 6) One white horse (More to come in other cards) -Isabelle

  Cassandra Clare

  Two, White, Chocolate

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• Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Beautiful, Work Out, Minutes

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• As they climbed into their saddles, Myron bowed his head and muttered a soft prayer. “There,” Hadrian told Royce, “we’ve got Maribor on our side. Now you can relax.” “Actually,” Myron said sheepishly, “I was praying for the horses. But I will pray for you as well,” he added hastily.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Prayer, Relax, Hadrian

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• The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping.

  Virginia Woolf

  Moving, Fall, Light

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.109, Virginia Woolf

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• A—ris—ta?” Degan asked, sounding horse. “What is it?” “A rat bit me,” she said, once again shocked by her own rasping voice. “Jasper does that if—” Gaunt coughed and hacked. After a moment, he spoke again. “If he thinks you’re dead or too weak to fight.” “Jasper?” “I call him that, but I’ve also named the stones in my cell.” “I only counted mine,” Arista said. “Two hundred and thirty-four,” Degan replied instantly. “I have two hundred and twenty-eight.” “Did you count the cracked ones as two?” “No.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Fighting, Thinking, Eight

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• Wow," she breathed. "I know, right? Hung like a horse." "If you're really nice-and you live through this-I'll promise not to tell V." "About my size." She laughed a little, "No, that you assumed I'd look at you in any fashion other than professionally.

  J.R. Ward

  Fashion, Nice, Promise

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.283, Penguin

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• I am here merely as a messenger. Tashi sends her love and returns your horse.

  Julia Golding

  Messengers, Return

  Julia Golding (2008). “Dragonfly”, p.364, Marshall Cavendish

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• You can kiss me if you like," she said. Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fiona," he said. "But frankly I'd prefer to kiss the horse.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Letting Go, Kissing, Alex

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Point Blank”, p.43, Penguin

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• Fuuuuuuuuuuck." Kynan scrubbed his face. "I could use a double shot of whiskey right now." "I'm sure Flicka keeps hard liquor behind the bar." "Flicka?" "I don't want to say her name." "So you're calling her horse names?" Ky coked a dark eyebrow. "I can't wait to see how she reacts to Mr. Ed.

  Larissa Ione

  Dark, Eyebrows, Names

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• Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.

  Susanna Clarke

  Book, Mean, Men

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.677, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Finn, do you see the lias—whatever, the orange-haired girl?” Razo Gestured ahead. “Do you think she’s pretty?” Finn glanced Dasha’s way, then returned his attention ot his horse. “She’s all right.” “Really? Just all right?” Finn shrugged. Razo rolled his eyes. “What am I saying? He doesn’t think any girl is pretty but Enna.” “Are there any girls but Enna?” Finn called back. “There’d better be.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Eye, Thinking

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• And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.

  Janet Morris

  Death, Commitment, Fighting

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.5, Paradise Publishing

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• This time of year, I live and breathe the beach. My cheeks feel raw with the wind throwing sand against them. My thighs sting from the friction of the saddle. My arms ache from holding up two thousand pounds of horse. I have forgotten what it is like to be warm and what a full night’s sleep feels like and what my name sounds like spoken instead of shouted across yards of sand. I am so, so alive.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beach, Sleep, Night

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races (Sneak Peek)”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows.

  Neil Gaiman

  Memories, Father, War

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my soul with flesh. I should fill my flesh with soul. In fact, I should reconcile at last within me the two internal antagonists.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Running, Fire, Two

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• Your horse is named Small. Yes. Mine is named Big. -Fire and Brigan

  Kristin Cashore

  Fire, Bigs, Mines

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• I will be master of what is mine own:
  She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
  My household stuff, my field, my barn,
  My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, House, Stuff

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.346, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

  Julian Assange

  Character, Argument, Holes

  Julian Assange (2011). “Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography”, p.18, Canongate Books

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• It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Beer, Phones, Labs

  Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Bimbos of the Death Sun”, p.86, RosettaBooks

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• Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Team, Sitting

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• Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Thinking, Air

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• Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Faces, Spit

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [214]

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