The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls Quotes

“It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part of my life.”
― Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

“I was a girl, I learned, who got what she wanted, but not without sadness, not without cutting a swath of destruction so wide it consumed my family. I almost fell into it, with them. I almost lost myself.”
― Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

“I knew what it was like to want, to desire so intensely you were willing to throw everything else into its fire.”
― Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

“We learned in class, were lectured to about wars and famines, ancient kings and queens, the habits of presidents. But the lectures were cursory. We needed to know what happened, because we were the well-bred daughters of men who could afford to educate us--but not why, or how.”
― Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

“Her family's fortune wasn't new, it had lost that ugly sheen.”
― Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

“Though Yonahlossee was an odd place to me, it was quickly turning familiar. Not missing home had at first seemed inconceivable, but I understood how the human heart operated, that it was fickle, capricious”
― Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

“I thought of my picture in the Castle. But what would future girls see when they looked at the photograph during their daily comings and goings, peering closely? Not the shade of my hair, rendered colorless. Not anything, really. Just a girl on a horse, like so many other girls.”
― Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

“Danger presented itself, every girl knew, from within the family. But we were no one, nothing without our families.”
― Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

“There had been whispers that her family was suffering financially--suffering, as if lack of money was a wound. Which it was, the worst kind.”
― Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

“harmless, and bright green, darting lizards. I bet it never got that hot here. These girls—they wouldn’t know how”
― Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

“respond. I’d always had indoor plumbing, and running water.”
― Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls