#hors

She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan, sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Writing a complete novel is time consuming, frustrating, nerve wrecking, and most of the time your work is under valued, under appreciated, and taken for granted. So why do authors do it? Because not writing at all, feels far worse. ↗

— Carl Henegan

#writing-life #life

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#metaphors #love

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls. ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-authors #famous-quotes #human-nature #love #philosophy-of-love

I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less. ↗

— Michael Morpurgo

#love #war-horse #love

You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#happy-ending #horses #kentucky #new-york #stable-boy

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses ↗

— Jane Smiley

#horses #love

I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind. ↗

— Garth Nix

#garth-nix #sabriel #love

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before. ↗

— China Miéville

#embassytown #language #lies-that-speak-truth #metaphors #similes

And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so that these clever, complex statements form slowly and then bloom in my mind. Beethoven does the same thing with his cadence and phrasing and structure. It's a fact: Jane Austen is musical. And so's Yeats. And Wordsworth. All the great writers are musical. ↗

— Andrew Clements

#musicality #love