Molly Gloss > Quotes

“The way of Friends is to think quietly and to listen. We ask the question, we consider how the answer is made by different people, we ask again, answer again, change our minds; we reach an understanding. The Meeting evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, not by the weight of the majority, but by the capacity of individual human beings to comprehend one another.”
― Molly Gloss, The Dazzle of Day

“I woke thinking: Is it possible that, after all, I am to go on living with the wild beasts while in the greater world others are out the peaks of the Himalayas, the dark heart of Arabia, and the secrets of the Poles--while in the civilized world electricity is spread to every corner, and the flying machine is invented--while in the laboratories and academies and astronomical observatories, by telescope and spectroscope and microscope, others are to discover the minute secrets of Life and the Universe--all this while I am living ignorant as a savage in the wilderness?”
― Molly Gloss, Wild Life

“I rate highly any woman who will freely swear and say the word "stink," but on this occasion I would rather have had a woman with an appreciation for ancient relics and mysterious rooms hidden in the deeps of forbidding caves.”
― Molly Gloss, Wild Life

“You know how it is between sisters in their middle age? that old old friendship, how loose-fitting it is? the comfort and safety in it? how you can let silence lie between you without it taking on any weight? how you can let words out of your mouth without wariness or precision because you know your sister will listen to what's worthwhile and let the rest fall out of her ears into the air? how you can be surly, unreasonable, stupid, in the certainty of her grace?”
― Molly Gloss, The Dazzle of Day

“Do you think we've got control of everything here, because this place is small and simple and we're in charge of it? It's so obvious we're in control, I guess we may have forgotten we're not in control. And I wonder if those people on the Earth, because it was so clear they weren't in control, forgot that they were.”
― Molly Gloss, The Dazzle of Day

“Sometimes we are reminded: All of us live steadfastly in that moment, the one between hope and the exercise of God's will.”
― Molly Gloss, The Dazzle of Day

“When you move something, you discover new meanings in it, Kristina thought, watching them.”
― Molly Gloss

“It can weigh on your mind, if you think very hard about a horse’s life.” He might have meant anything, but what came into her own head was Alfred Logerwell beating his horse with a pipe, and her dad’s horses, and other horses she had known, horses who were gaunt, thirsty, lame, wounded, broken-winded, frightened, discouraged.”
― Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses: A Historical Western Novel About a Young Woman Gentling Wild Horses in 1917 Oregon

“shimmering”
― Molly Gloss, Falling From Horses

“and heading for the next, running the first horse into the second corral, throwing the saddle on the next bronc and then heading down the line to the next place and the next until winding up back at the first place just about at”
― Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses: A Historical Western Novel About a Young Woman Gentling Wild Horses in 1917 Oregon

“the smells of the fur rug and saddle soap, leather and hay, the warm, clean, fecund smell of horses, arose out of the cold darkness and were a comfort against a yearning that was not homesickness.”
― Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses: A Historical Western Novel About a Young Woman Gentling Wild Horses in 1917 Oregon