The Horse Dancer

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.