Forward Quotes

“Why won’t you embrace what we’ve got? This isn’t forever, living here. This isn’t the last stop on the train. We have no idea where life is going to take us next.” The words were new to my consciousness, but they didn’t surprise me. If nothing else, I had spent the past few years learning that life was not the unfolding pathway to greatness I had expected and planned on. Life was not a succession of well-deserved wins acquired through hard work and sacrifice. Life was hard work and sacrifice with maybe a few accidental wins along the way. Maybe the point was to wait out the hard times and then soak up the good moments for as long as they lasted. But maybe these were the good times and the hard times, all rolled into one.”
― Natalie Keller Reinert, Forward

“It happened to racehorses who had campaigned hard for many years. It happened to show jumpers and dressage horses and reining horses and cutting horses. It happened to anyone, horse or human, who pounded their joints day in and day out, pushing to the extremes on a regular basis. You could only push past your optimum zone and into the extremes so many times without exacting damage on your body that would last a lifetime. Dynamo had already done that by the time he’d come into my life. He’d already lived a whole athletic history I knew almost nothing about—other than the universal facts: he’d galloped just as fast he could, over and over and over again. After that, he’d become an event horse, tackling long gallops and big jumps and exacting dressage tests. His joints were feeling every furlong he’d ever covered, and they were tired.”
― Natalie Keller Reinert, Forward

“you’d think we were a vast army of Pinocchios on horseback, galloping towards Gomorrah with our forked tongues spilling over”
― Natalie Keller Reinert, Forward