Horseman Quotes

“You can’t teach your children if you have nothing valuable to teach,” Katrina said. “They learn what they see.”
― Christina Henry, Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

“It wasn’t that people didn’t care; it was that they accepted horror in exchange for wonder.”
― Christina Henry, Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

“I’ve never been disappointed in you,” she said with sudden fierceness. “Never. But it’s hard to give up on dreams. The more you pulled away, the more you ran toward Brom, the harder I tried to pull you back. That was my mistake. You weren’t a horse to be broken. I should have remembered that. I’m sorry that I made you think I didn’t love you just as you were.”
― Christina Henry, Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

“I couldn’t understand why anyone would choose to be stuck inside with a book when there were trees to climb, but Sander always said that he went further inside a book then I ever did on my own feet.”
― Christina Henry, Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

“Because that happened in the Hollow, too. People decided to forget things, and those things were tucked away and never spoken of again.”
― Christina Henry, Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

“I also knew, with a deep uneasiness, that any accusations of witchcraft might be taken seriously by the people of the village. Sleepy Hollow believed in spirits and demons, because they lived side by side with those beings. The people of the town believed in magic. And why wouldn’t they? Magic was woven into the fabric of the Hollow. It drifted in the air.”
― Christina Henry, Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

“There are blind corners, and secrets that never bubble up.”
― Christina Henry, Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

“It’s not a pleasant sensation, to feel that you are hunted. People are accustomed to being the hunters, to feel they have control over the beasts of the wild, that there is nothing superior to a human.”
― Christina Henry, Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

“Du kannst deinen Kindern nichts beibringen, was du selbst nicht in dir hast", sagte Katrina. "Sie lernen, was sie sehen." Ich zog die Augenbrauen zusammen. "Also war es in Ordnung, dass Justus so war, weil er es nicht anders konnte?" "Natürlich nicht", antwortete Katrina. "Aber man muss schlauer sein als Justus, um zu begreifen, dass man sich ändern kann, und zu lernen, wie.”
― Christina Henry, Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow