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“Always give chance for the things you don't want. Cause sometimes they turn out to be the great things you'll ever have.”
Elyn Balongcas“Always give chance for the things you don't want. Cause sometimes they turn out to be the great things you'll ever have.”
Elyn Balongcas“Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding hill tracks. Songs were sung about him to the cattle and both songs and tales had become even stranger since his supposed death when he vanished through the wind and the night over a great cliff. Tales kept cropping up of a ghost horse seen, or imagined, roaming over the mountains at night, of stockmen waking in a hut at midnight, hearing the tremendous stallion’s cry which could only be Thowra’s”
Elyne Mitchell“A long shaft of light came down from the sun behind the clouds and fell on the rearing, striking horses so that Thowra was the glittering foam on a waterfall, was quicksilver held for a dazzling moment in the shape of a horse, but a horse that was never still”
Elyne Mitchell“There’s a tremendous need to implode the myths of mental illness, to put a face on it, to show people that a diagnosis does not have to lead to a painful and oblique life....We who struggle with these disorders can lead full, happy, productive lives, if we have the right resources.”
Elyn R. Saks“Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.”
Elyn R. Saks“in my experience, the words “now just calm down” almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.”
Elyn R. Saks“the oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to com”
Elyne Mitchell, Son of the Whirlwind“Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again”
Elyne Mitchell, Moon Filly“Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of a horse — came the Silver Stallion. Wild, beautiful, and free as the wind he came, from one kingdom to another, Thowra”
Elyne Mitchell, Silver Brumby's Daughter