Mark Spragg > Quotes

“I was a boy, and I believed deeply in the sightedness of horses. I believed that there was nothing that they did not witness. I believed that to have a horse between my legs, to extend my pulse and blood and energy to theirs, enhanced my vision. Made of me a seer. I believed them to be the dappled, sorrel, roan, bay, black pupils in the eyes of God.”
― Mark Spragg, Where Rivers Change Direction

“I am fond of the sound of horses in the night. The lifting of feet. Stamping. The clicking of their iron shoes against rock. They mouth one anothers withers and rear and squeal and whirl and shuffle and cough and stand and snort. There is the combined rumblings of each individual gut. They sound larger than they are. The air tastes of horses, ripples as though come alive with their good-hearted strength and stamina.”
― Mark Spragg, Where Rivers Change Direction

“There is no happiness like the pounding of so many horses into one. I imagine I hear the horses laugh. I think it every time. I think that running is the way a horse may laugh out loud. When I am older I will believe that following in their wake has filled me with the inconsolable joy of animals.”
― Mark Spragg, Where Rivers Change Direction

“We own nothing in our lives but perspective.”
― Mark Spragg, The Fruit of Stone

“There is no happiness like the pounding of so many horses into one. I imagine I hear the horses laugh...When I am older I will believe that following in their wake has filled me with the inconsolable joy of animals.”
― Mark Spragg, Where Rivers Change Direction

“My dad used to say the best place to look for sympathy was somewhere between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― Mark Spragg, The Fruit of Stone

“An old man who's happy not to have cowshit on his neck.”
― Mark Spragg, An Unfinished Life

“You think the dead really care about our lives?
-Yeah, I think they do. I think they forgive us our sins. -I even think it’s easy for them.”
― Mark Spragg, An Unfinished Life