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Half Broke Horses

Name: Half Broke Horses
Author: Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls

Half Broke Horses is a 2009 novel by Jeannette Walls detailing the life of her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith.

“Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.”

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“God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.”

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“Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.”

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“You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.”

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“It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.”

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“sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it”

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“Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.”

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“When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.”

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“Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.”

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“If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.”

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“Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.”

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“But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.”

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“People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.”

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“If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.”

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