“Sometimes it took only a few words of faith to reilluminate a spark of confidence that the future could be something wonderful, instead of a relentless series of obstacles and disappointments.”
“he said, that the only way to achieve something magical was through work and discipline”
“Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.”
“It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched out ahead of you.”
“It was a world of order, of high standards met and maintained. Mac felt curiousity reassured that a place like this still existed.”
“There was no one left to anchor her to the earth, no one who cared about her. There was nothing to go on to, nothing to return to.”
“It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched ahead of you.”
“Money didn't buy you happiness, she reflected afterward, but it certainly provided you with better places to be miserable.”
“For as a rule, the most ambitious horses are the highest mettled.”
“How easily an innocent remark could be misconstrued when every conversation was loaded with history.”
“There is no happiness in this world other than what is achieved by love of one's work”
“I'm fine," she said, wondering how you could say something so patently true yet untrue at the same time.”
“Every time I think I know everything about horses, there is something more to surprise me. "I feel the same way about humans," Mac said.”
“Under his breath, he repeated the words of Xenophon: “Anger undermines effective communication with your horse.”
“How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!”
“Acudieron de setenta y cuatro naciones diferentes. Los dispersados, los exiliados, los repudiados se congregaban en el único rincón de la Tierra donde la palabra «judío» no era un insulto.”
“I'll find you again. Even if it takes a hundred of those years.”
“There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language.”
“You’ll find out it’s little savors and little things that count more than big ones. A walk on a spring morning is better than an eighty-mile ride in a hopped-up car, you know why? Because it’s full of flavors, full of a lot of things growing. You’ve time to seek and find. I know, you’re after the broad effect now, I suppose that’s fit and proper. But you got to look at grapes as well as watermelons. You greatly admire skeletons and I like fingerprints; well, and good. Right now such things are bothersome to you, and I wonder if it isn’t because you never learned to use them. If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you’d have a devil of a time thinking up things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life.”
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