Mollie Hunter > Quotes

“No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless in their stride as feathers falling.”
― Mollie Hunter, The Kelpie's Pearls

“He was waiting there for her beside the pool - a great black horse with shoulders like polished ebony and the water still streaming from his mane and tail. Morag stood and looked at him for a long moment. The great horse looked at her and never moved.

“Will you trust me?” he had asked her the evening before, and she had trusted him then. She trusted him now, and so she walked towards him. She grasped his mane, and still the black horse never moved. She stood on a stone beside him, swung herself onto his back, and the black horse moved.”
― Mollie Hunter, The Kelpie's Pearls

“She was dressed in a green cloak that covered her to the ankles. A green hood was pulled down over her hair, which was white like that of an old woman. Yet still Hi Johnny could not tell whether she was young or old because her face had no wrinkles and her eyes were as bright and clear as those of a girl.

“You’ve sprung up suddenly, ma’am,” said he, staring at her, and the woman smiled at this.

“I’m always where there are eyes to see me, “ she told him.”
― Mollie Hunter, Hi Johnny