The Horse Whisperer Quotes
"There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end."
"All she knew, when she opened her eyes, was that the world was somehow altered."
"The red glow of her alarm showed it was yet a half-hour till the time she had set it to wake her."
"She shivered, not from the cold, but from the thrill that this transformed world was for the moment entirely hers."
"Her parents' relationship had long been a mystery to her, a complicated world where dominance and compliance were never quite what they seemed."
"Wayne Tanner looked gloomily over the rim of his coffee cup at the rows of snowcrusted trucks parked outside the diner."
"In the balm of a Georgia morning two days earlier, Wayne hadn't thought to check that he had his snow chains."
"The interstate was fine, as Wayne Tanner had expected."
"Their tracks cut a perfect diagonal across the unblemished square of the field."
"One of the things Grace's mother hated most about weekends was the mountain of newsprint she had to read."
"The purge was now almost over however and Annie and Farlow had recently become skillful at constructing payoff deals which bought the silence of those departing."
"She ran. And although this distinction was not immediately obvious from either her speed or her technique, to Annie it was as clear and vital as the cold morning air into which she now plunged."
"With a jolt, Wayne spotted the exit for Chatham coming up and he got to work, pumping the brakes and taking the truck down through its nine gears."
"Wayne Tanner saw them as soon as he came out of the bend."
"In the odd stillness of the moment before Gulliver hit them, Grace knew there was more to the roar in her head than the rushing of blood."
"Robert Maclean paused in the passageway by the back door, holding two large bags of groceries."
"The helicopter hung there for a while above the river, taking in the scene, then dipped its nose and lifted up over the woods."
"Annie had taken six weeks off work when Grace was born and had loved every minute."
"They were married the following spring and Grace, their only child, was born three years later."
"He was six years older than she was but it had often felt much more."
"It's all about self-preservation... They're the most forgiving creatures God ever made."
"If you've got no confidence and you're scared she's gonna turn you down and you sidle up, looking at your boots, sure as eggs'll break she will turn you down."
"Dancing and riding, it's the same damn thing. It's about trust and consent."
"I guess that's all forever is. Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now."
"Books had a kind of magic. But these teachers here, with all their talk, well... Seems to me if you talk about these things too much, the magic gets lost and pretty soon talk is all there is."
"I don't do it for the people. I do it for the horse."
"The best teachers I ever met were the horses themselves."
"People seldom seemed to bring the same expectations to such encounters."
"Without ever spelling it out to himself... he had in his life a kind of innate balance."
"I don't think it is. Anyway, that's the deal."
"It's ridiculous, the Methodists have all the good tunes."
"The truth was, the aching emptiness of the apartment made him morose and he avoided being here as much as he could."
"Grace knew quite well that people rode with worse disabilities than hers."
"It was years since she'd felt the exhilaration that had been there this morning."
"Since her early days at Rolling Stone, those parts of the news media that followed such matters had dubbed her 'brilliant and fiery'."
"Listening to Grace this evening and earlier to Logan, he'd searched every corner of what they said for something to latch on to, some key, some lever he could use."
"There were a couple of recent issues of her magazine lying there and he'd picked one up and looked through it."
"As they rode back, Annie told him about the books she'd found in the public library, about whisperers and witchcraft and so forth and he laughed."
"The truth is, you'd be doing me a favor. I got all these eager young colts to ride and poor old Rimrock here is feeling kind of left out."
"She had expected to have terrible, bloody dreams about the accident. But she hadn't dreamed about it once."
"It was kind of short on detail but it seemed all the guy had really done was take the mare back to basics as if he were starting her afresh, helping her find herself, making the right thing easy and wrong thing difficult."
"You gotta let them kind of fill in. Tom says it's all about self-preservation."
"Where there's pain, there's still feeling and where there's feeling, there's hope."
"All those years you and Dad were trying for another baby? Every night I used to pray this time let it be okay."
"Because you're you. You're incredible. You're beautiful and you're strong."
"It wasn't he who'd invaded their lives but the other way around."
"It's wonderful about Grace and Pilgrim. It's important you all stay out there as long as you need to."
"She felt the swell of him within her, felt the gliding fusion of their two halves."
"He felt her quake and held her more tightly to him, burrowing his face to find hers."
"He held her face in his hands that he might kiss her more deeply."
"It seemed to Annie, when he entered her, that he dislodged in her loins some hot and vivid surge."
"She felt the caress of his hard hands on her breasts and opened her eyes to see him bend his head to kiss them."
"He moved on her with that same centered confidence she'd seen in him all along."
"He draped a blanket over his shoulders and drew it around them, cocooning her against the night and all encroachment."
"Nothing, Annie thought, nothing in that other world can touch us here."
"They surveyed each other now in their nakedness, letting their eyes roam and feed with an incredulous, suspended, mutual hunger."
"It was need. The need that Rachel, so many years ago, had felt for him and that he'd found himself unable to return, nor felt for any being or thing before or since."
"Not to think beyond the moment, just to live it."
"They fed upon each other like creatures foretold of some dreadful, limitless winter."
"Breathing through her mouth so the fumes wouldn't make her cry."
"It worries me, all this back-to-nature, big-outdoors stuff you're getting into."
"Daddies too. It prevents mortification of the flesh."
"Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all."
"Sometimes a horse'll fight it real hard. That's why I don't like doing it unless I have to."
"He had the choice to go on fighting life or to accept it."
"Everything he'd done with Pilgrim had been designed to build up trust and confidence."
"He found out it was okay. Even you standing on him was okay."
"Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts."
"It's about seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain."