The Shadowy Horses Quotes

“If I’m still on my feet, then I’m meant to be living. I’ll not give up all of my pleasures.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“Life moves on,” she said gently, “and ye cannae go back. You’ve only got one chance to get it right.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“In my day? And what am I, a dinosaur? Which one of us is turning thirty-seven?” David shook his head. “Not till tomorrow. I’m a young man yet, the day.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“Some things, I reasoned, simply ran in a person’s blood.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“Looking at old photographs was like that. Magic.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“The male of the species, I thought with a sigh, could be so bloody maddening.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“It really was unfair how nature always gave the longest eyelashes to men.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“But at the moment, surrounded by strangers in a wild landscape, with the remnants of a long-dead civilization spread at my feet, such things as ghosts seemed possible.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“Hollywood, I reasoned, rarely concerned itself with getting things right.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“Silence in the face of nonsense, that’s what my father always said.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“But till then, I could wait – I was in no great hurry. Like the swans, I had mated for life.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“My mother, come to think of it, would have been a welcome sight jut now..."There are no such things as ghosts," she would have told me, and of course I would have believed her”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“At Robbie's age, I had been confused about chronology too- it had taken my father several days to explain why Cleopatra and the first Elizabeth could not have taken tea together.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“Leon Uris.” “Is that his name? He said there was no future in Ireland, only the past happening over and over.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“funny thing about life, isn’t it? If you’re not taking care of your kids, you’re taking care of your parents.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“In Ireland, our sea-god, Manannan Mac Lir, is also the god of the otherworld, riding his chariot over the waves in the wake of his magical horses. They carry men off, do those horses—over the water and into the mist, to the land where the living can’t go.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“Canadian J. Norman Emerson, publicly”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“Archaeologists, I thought, were a breed apart.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“Once wakened, I could never quite drop off again,”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“She hadn’t learned, as I had, that true archaeologists were not the swashbuckling heroes of Hollywood films, dashing madly round the world from danger zone to danger zone in search of priceless treasures. True archaeologists were scientists.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“but now that I’d had the fact pointed out to me I could recognize that indefinable quality, the faint hint of horses and hounds, that marked a certain segment of the Anglo-Irish gentry.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses

“My mother, come to think of it, would have been a welcome sight just now. "There are no such things as ghosts," she would have told me, and of course I would have believed her.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Shadowy Horses