“If wishes were horses…”
Category Archives: Horses
The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
“Dancing and riding, it’s the same thing. It’s about trust and consent. You’ve gotten hold of one another. The man’s leading but he’s not dragging her… You’re in harmony and moving to each other’s rhythm, just following the feel.”
Riding Lessons, Sara Gruen
“The [riding] student is staring as though she’s seen God.”
Flying Changes, Sara Gruen
“With my knees and calves pressed against his warm solid muscle and my hands connected to his mouth through a rein, I sense his thoughts as they occur to him. I’d feel clever for that except he anticipates mine before they’ve even arrived.”
Flying Changes, Sara Gruen
“I always ride him bareback… if some one asked me why…the reason is simple: I want nothing between me and my horse.”
Flying Changes, Sara Gruen
“He transports me, and I give myself over to him. When I ride him I’m a different person- confident, competent, operating at a level somewhere below latent thought and in absolute concert with the magnificent animal beneath me. When I slide from his back I am recharged and whole.”
The Mountain’s Call, Caitlin Brennan
“… [she] felt the rhythmic beat of hooves on the earth as… the stallions danced. That rhythm ruled the world. The stars sang it. It sent the moon through its phases. The sun rose and set within it. It was as powerful as anything that was and yet was unspeakably fragile.”
The Mountain’s Call, Caitlin Brennan
“No man is a stallion’s master. He may be companion, he may be partner- but master, never.”
Shattered Dance, Caitlin Brennan
“No rider was ever alone.”
Shattered Dance, Caitlin Brennan
“[He] could not begin to guess how fast they were going. Faster than a normal horse could gallop-faster than the wind.”
Shattered Dance, Caitlin Brennan
“Men and stallions- there was no reasoning with them.”
Shattered Dance, Caitlin Brennan
“The only throne she had ever needed or wanted was a horses back. She was a rider first, foremost and always.”
Shattered Dance, Caitlin Brennan
“My throne is my stallion’s saddle.”
The Mountain’s Call, Caitlin Brennan
“Men had failed her, but stallions would not.”
Aurelia, Anne Osterlund
“Free. Freedom must feel like this; the air, the space, the absolute absence of control. Time had suspended itself beneath the pounding hooves. She gave herself up to it, burying her head against [her horse’s] neck and letting herself enjoy the moments of thoughtless flight. “
Riding Lessons, Sara Gruen
“There’s the flap-flap-flap of leather on leather, the heavy incalzando of hoof beats, da-da-DA, da-da-DA, da-da-DA, and then a massive push, a hundred thousand compressed pounds exploding forth before-silence. As we arc over the fence, the only parts of me in contact with anything are my calves and hands and the balls of my feet although it looks like I’m lying on him…”
Riding Lessons, Sara Gruen
“We’re flying now, and its a wonder to me that we touch the ground at all because clearly we don’t need to. We are at the spread- on and past, to the water, and I’m letting him now, trusting him, and we’re flying. Let me, he says, and I say yes, because how can I not…”
Something to Talk About (movie)
“I have to go to talk to a horse about a man.”
Shattered Dance, Caitlin Brennan
“When he gathered the reins and set his foot in the stirrup, grief and anger and fear drained away. There was nothing now but the horse under him and the arena around him.”
Shattered Dance, Caitlin Brennan
“She had to ride – it was as vital to her as breathing.”
The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
“I don’t do it for the people, I do it for the horse.”
The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
“Dancing and riding, it’s the same thing. It’s about trust and consent. You’ve gotten hold of on another. The man’s leading but he’s not dragging her… You’re in harmony and moving to each other’s rhythm, just following the feel.”
The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
“Their feet seemed to be on air. It was the same when he rode a horse.”
The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
“He’s not going to look back if you don’t, they’re the most forgiving creatures God ever made.”
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