American author Terri Farley is the author of Seven Tears into the Sea, The Phantom Stallion series for young readers and many nonfiction magazine articles.
We were meant to be together.
Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.
Morning's great that way. You can cry yourself to sleep and wake up wondering what the fuss was over.
Gwen?" "Yes. " "You know why we have to be together, don't you?" ". . . " "I'm your selkie.
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.
Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.
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.
For the Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse.
Beckon The Sea, I'll Come To The. . . . Shed Seven Tears, Perchance Seven Years. . .
Since humans first huddled around campfires, stories have been told of wild horses with wind in their manes, fire in their eyes and freedom in their hearts. Those horses eluded capture, and scorned the comforts of civilization. Americans have insisted they want their wild horses to live that way, forever.