The Horse Dancer Quotes

“Sometimes it took only a few words of faith to reilluminate a spark of confidence that the future could be something wonderful, instead of a relentless series of obstacles and disappointments.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched out ahead of you.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“he said, that the only way to achieve something magical was through work and discipline”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“It was a world of order, of high standards met and maintained. Mac felt curiousity reassured that a place like this still existed.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“There is no happiness in this world other than what is achieved by love of one's work”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“The six forty-seven to Liverpool Street was heaving. It seemed ridiculous that a train should be this busy so early in the morning. Natasha Macauley sat down, already overheated despite the cool of early morning, muttering an apology to a woman who had to move her jacket out of the way. The besuited man who had got on behind her forced himself into a gap between the passengers opposite, and promptly unfolded his newspaper, oblivious to the woman whose paperback he partially obscured.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“Later, much later, he accused her of shutting herself down from him long before she had started the thing with Conor Briscoe. What could she say? She knew this was true, but it had been her right not to talk about it. What was there to say, anyway? Three would-be babies in four years, none of whom had lived much past the tadpole stage. The doctor had told her she “qualified” for further investigation, as if she had achieved something. But she hadn’t wanted it. She hadn’t wanted anyone to touch her, didn’t want to have to revisit those bleak hours. Didn’t want evidence of what she suspected.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“There is no happiness in this world other than what is achieved by love of one’s work.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“And she’s a teenager. I think it’s in the handbook that they’re meant to spend vast swaths of time not talking to you.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“relationship. She had lost the man she loved.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“infidelity. They ended because the”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“An average of fifteen days each school term. With her parents’ knowledge?” “I . . . assumed so. We tend to deal with Mrs. Persey.” “You tend to deal with Mrs. Persey.” Natasha let that one hang. Along the bench, she could see Mr. Persey whispering urgently to his brief. “And what reasons did Mrs. Persey give for her daughter’s absences on those days?” “It wasn’t anything very specific. She would say Lucy wasn’t feeling up to it. Sometimes a headache. A couple of times she didn’t give any reason.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“If you didn’t think about it, your breath just traveled in and out of your body regardless. Didn’t matter what you did, running, riding, sleeping, it just went in and out, doing its job, keeping you alive. As soon as you thought too hard about it, it became a passive thing. Waiting for you to fill your lungs. Stalling when you thought bad thoughts, when you felt your stomach tighten with fear.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“kisses,”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“It was painful to see the best of him directed at someone else.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched ahead of you.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“There was no one left to anchor her to the earth, no one who cared about her. There was nothing to go on to, nothing to return to.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“Under his breath, he repeated the words of Xenophon: “Anger undermines effective communication with your horse.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“Every time I think I know everything about horses, there is something more to surprise me. "I feel the same way about humans," Mac said.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“I'm fine," she said, wondering how you could say something so patently true yet untrue at the same time.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“How easily an innocent remark could be misconstrued when every conversation was loaded with history.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“For as a rule, the most ambitious horses are the highest mettled.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer

“Money didn't buy you happiness, she reflected afterward, but it certainly provided you with better places to be miserable.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Horse Dancer