Funerals for Horses Quotes

“They just want to kill the pain. Everybody just wants to kill the pain.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“sex is what you make it, and we have always made do. To assume sex must take place within touching distance seems, to me, limited thinking.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“On the way up the walk I took in the weedless border gardens, the two floors of smudgeless windows, and I wondered, when a person does all this, do they have time left over for other things?”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“I don’t mean that I remember hearing about it. I remember the caul, and then the sudden absence of it.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“Some things, like innocence, only go one way.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“I’d been focusing strongly on green since my days in pasture seeing through the eyes of a horse.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“in a corral with the horses. They accepted me immediately. Unlike people, they don’t judge much by your outsides. They knew I was one of them. Problem was, when one of the employees came around to ask what I was doing there, I was pretty caught up in being a horse, and I spooked. I felt my eyes widen, showing white all the way around,”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“This darkness doesn’t belong to the night. It belongs to me.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“I loved pain, followed it, thought it would cleanse me, right my wrongs.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“The moon shows it all. Thank god the moon is on my side. I’ll need a piece of that, a piece of Sarah, all of myself and all of Simon.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“we are bound by a common love, a stronger bond now, as it extends to a common loss.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“I am not as unstable as people tend to think, but I allow them their margin for error because it allows me mine.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“So I guess the theme of this novel is, “Look for strength in unexpected places.” Not only might you find it there, but it might be more beautiful and more hopeful than strength found anywhere else. Here’s to strength and healing.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“You know, Willie, I never meant to hurt myself. I just didn’t want the disease. I wouldn’t do something against me. I don’t think anybody ever does. You must know that, Willie. Everybody’s just trying to stay safe. Even people who try to kill themselves, I bet they’re still on their own sides, Willie. They just want to kill the pain. Everybody just wants to kill the pain.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“I look back because I felt at home with May and Everett, as much as I ever have anywhere. I don’t want that time to be gone. But it is gone, and even if I had not left, still it would be gone. Only for the time I was meant to be there could I feel so at peace.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“You have a mission. Most of us only wish we did. It’s the purest, most untarnished way to live a life. All the universe envies you. All the people, the animals, even the sun and the clouds and the night. If we could trade places with you, we would. So we line up at your back in admiration. We are all with you, Ella.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“My initial solution came in the form of night rovings, like an owl or a coyote. I had been stagnating in the house too long, and some glowing ball of spirit in me threatened to fade to nothing, and I feared it might be like fire—you need fire to make fire, and you must never let the last of it die.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“feel”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“man—I think his name was Frank—hauled me out of there and asked who I belonged to, but by then I’d forgotten. By then I thought I belonged to the earth and the sky, and the sharp, pushing blades of grass that grew for me. Simon came and found me in time, and from”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“Look for strength in unexpected places.” Not only might you find it there, but it might be more beautiful and more hopeful than strength found anywhere else. Here’s to strength”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“I looked down the endless stretch of highway and decided not to borrow trouble from too far down the road.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“The moon taught me that only madness is pure. Once I’d made a start without it, my life was trodden territory, never really mine. At first I found this depressing, a sense of loss I could barely feel but which sapped me. In time I grew used to the feeling, which made it possible to bring more feet into my impure mind to track things up. If I couldn’t go back, I might as well go forward. I”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“Willie sat with her elbow on the table, her hand shading her eyes. “I wish you knew how remarkable you are, Ella. So much deeper than anybody else I know. Even the grownups.” “Is that good, Willie? To be deep?”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“I felt quite uncentered enough on my own, with no outside assistance.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“There is water within our reach. We only have to reach for it.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“the soul of the animal, as I’ve read that Native Americans do. It strikes me as a form of grace. Saying grace. Or just being grace. I am still on the Navajo Nation, wishing Navajo grace traveled with me on this land, or that Everett had packed some with my dried beef. But I don’t go so far as to complete the ritual. I say a word or two of apology out loud,”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“Yozzy is a horse, for which I envy her.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“he slings me up to Yozzy’s back. I ease gently down onto her. After all, it is her back. Not a motorcycle seat, or a bale of straw, but the fine vertebrae of a sentient being.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“All guidance springs from an ability within yourself—if only the ability to be guided.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses

“The shorter your range of vision, the fewer options and changes to trouble you.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Funerals for Horses