The Fire Horse Girl Quotes

“You can love someone as many ways as water falls from the sky. Sometimes it falls with thunder and lightning; other times it falls silently. Sometimes it falls as cool snow, and other times hard balls of ice beat down. If you want the water, you don't get to choose how it falls.”
― Kay Honeyman, The Fire Horse Girl

“Had my father loved my mother? He never spoke of her. I always imagined a traditional marriage between them--one built with the strong bones of respect, but stripped of the soft skin of love.”
― Kay Honeyman, The Fire Horse Girl

“He did look at me, and it made my heart jump. 'No, you have become yourself. You... you are as captivating as the flame that dances in a fire. And just as destructive.”
― Kay Honeyman, The Fire Horse Girl

“Storytellers know this, for they choose their first words with care. If I began this story with the words “Out of the mist of time comes the story of Jade Moon, the Fire Horse girl,” you would expect it to throb with adventure and end with heroics. If I began it with “It is said” or “There is an old saying,” you would search the story for wisdom. But this is not a story of heroics or wisdom; it is my story. There once was a girl, a Fire Horse girl.”
― Kay Honeyman, The Fire Horse Girl

“I could feel the beginning of the story gathering in her throat. Stories are that way, like storms. If you pay attention, you can sense them in the air.”
― Kay Honeyman, The Fire Horse Girl

“Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she grew. They were equally useless, but the flowers smelled better.”
― Kay Honeyman, The Fire Horse Girl

“I carried those more carefully, whispering them to myself, letting them sit on my tongue like candied ginger. They sounded like words used to cast a spell.”
― Kay Honeyman, The Fire Horse Girl

“I barely heard him over the singing in my heart.”
― Kay Honeyman, The Fire Horse Girl