Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

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

I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It 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.

Life there was hard and it made people hard.

You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him.