Mercury Quotes

“Saddle pad for M. Talk to Claudia, kids, Peggy. Speak to Francesca re lawyer. Police.”
― Margot Livesey, Mercury

“In some odd way,” Robert said, “this country doesn’t care about children once they’re out of the womb. Education, welfare, health care, they’re always under siege. And if the lack of those three doesn’t do kids in, then the adults, the people supposedly in charge of keeping them safe, give them guns.”
― Margot Livesey, Mercury

“Jack once described the Greek idea of genius as an external force taking over a person.”
― Margot Livesey, Mercury

“I am also indebted to The Nature of Horses by Stephen Budiansky; How to Think Like a Horse by Cherry Hill; The Horse in Human History by Pita Kelekna; The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts; Horse Sense by John Mettler; and Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards. Keeping African Grey Parrots by David Aldington helped me to think about Nabokov.”
― Margot Livesey, Mercury