The Hearts of Horses Quotes

“It can weigh on your mind, if you think very hard about a horse’s life.” He might have meant anything, but what came into her own head was Alfred Logerwell beating his horse with a pipe, and her dad’s horses, and other horses she had known, horses who were gaunt, thirsty, lame, wounded, broken-winded, frightened, discouraged.”
― Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses: A Historical Western Novel About a Young Woman Gentling Wild Horses in 1917 Oregon

“the smells of the fur rug and saddle soap, leather and hay, the warm, clean, fecund smell of horses, arose out of the cold darkness and were a comfort against a yearning that was not homesickness.”
― Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses: A Historical Western Novel About a Young Woman Gentling Wild Horses in 1917 Oregon

“and heading for the next, running the first horse into the second corral, throwing the saddle on the next bronc and then heading down the line to the next place and the next until winding up back at the first place just about at”
― Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses: A Historical Western Novel About a Young Woman Gentling Wild Horses in 1917 Oregon