Terri Farley Quotes

#1. You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on the other side of a lead rope when a wild horse starts running.

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#2. Dad and Gram didn't take a single day on the ranch for granted. Regardless of the weather, the greeted each morning as if they'd embrace it, filling their eyes with a vaulting sky and sagebrush-coverd ridges. Then they gave silent prayer of thanks for living the life they loved.

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#3. Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

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#4. Courtship? Had I said courtship? What did I think, that this was Jane freakin' Eyre?

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#5. Beckon The Sea, I'll Come To The ... Shed Seven Tears, Perchance Seven Years ...

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#6. It never seemed fair that just when you're old enough to do anything you want, you can't. You have to start working, so there's no time. And if there is time, you're not working, so there's no money.

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#7. And there was no way to unsay words you'd blurted out, no matter how sorry you were.

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#8. Morning's great that way. You can cry yourself to sleep and wake up wondering what the fuss was over.

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#9. Jake's Shoshone black hair had grown long enough that he wore it tied off with leather, once more.

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#10. The waves, the girl in the rain, and that awful, blood-begotten stom. Blood and love and loss.

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#11. Typical Cowboy,"she muttered. "The world could be coming to an end and you wouldn't go outside to watch without your hat." ...
"You got that right.

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#12. Gwen?"
"Yes."
"You know why we have to be together, don't you?"
" ... "
"I'm your selkie.

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#13. When I was a little girl, my favorite television show starred Roy Rogers and Dale Evans- the queen of the cowgirls." Mrs. Coley explained. "Dale wore a fancy fringed leather skirt and rode a buckskin horse named Buttermilk ...
"Thank heavens for Dale Evans," she said with a sigh.

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#14. As if I were a dog, to follow at your heels.

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#15. We were meant to be together.

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#16. Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.

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#17. What did you say, Gram? About there being no church out here?" "I said that the sky was the roof of my cathedral and the desert was its floor and any time I paid attention, I could feel a higher power all around me.

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#18. Waves broke, then sighed as if they were searching, not finding, then coming back, never giving up the search, returning again and again.

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#19. I was doing it again, and I do NOT ogle strangers.

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#20. For the Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse.

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