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No doubt in your previous home there was a library of wonderful books where a child could learn everything about everything. I envy you, all those happy hours you must have spent sitting and reading, reading, reading, discovering the world. You know much more than any of us.

Elsa is 7-going-on-8, Granny is 77-going-on-78 and a genius and mad and a crackpot and a superhero. She makes Elsa forget being bullied and having her scarf torn by breaking into a zoo and getting them both arrested.

It's not courage so much as stubbornness.

What is castanet in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even a God - who knows all that can be known - seems powerless to change."

"..those who have suffered great pain of injury or loss are joined to one another with bonds of a special authority and so it has proved to be. The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief."

"..there were two things they agreed upon wholly and that were never spoken and that was God had put horses on earth to work cattle and that other than cattle there was no wealth proper to a man."

"...no man who had not gone to war horseback can ever truly understand the horse. ..he had seen the souls of horses and that it was a terrible thing to see. ...the horse shares a common soul and its separate life only forms it out of all horses and makes it mortal. ...if a person understood the soul of a horse then he would understand all horses that ever were."

"..the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold."

John Grady and Lacey Rawlins ride out for Mexico.

Young thieves in a glowing orchard

Alice is now a year old Readers apprentice. Together with sarcastic cat Ashes, she is exploring the world within books and subduing creatures imprisoned in their story.