"Water for Elephants" Quotes
A young man joins a traveling circus during the Great Depression and falls in love with the star performer, but their romance is threatened by the dark secrets of the circus.
fiction | 335 pages | Published in 2006
Quotes
I don't know if I picked the right horse or not. He's awfully small, and he's got this ugly little Roman nose. But he's kind and he's gentle, and he's maybe the smartest horse I've ever worked with.
I'm ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.
You tell people you're a fortune teller, they don't believe you. You tell them you used to be an elephant, they don't bat an eye.
You're just like a dog, aren't you? You don't have a mean bone in your body.
Sometimes you must go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good when you think you're feeling bad.
I can't believe I'm still alive. But I must be, or I wouldn't be thinking all these things.
I can't figure out if it's a blessing or a curse. It's not that I don't want to be loved, it's just that I don't. I don't deserve it. People should be loved. Animals should be loved. It's not right to love me.
It's still dark out. I don't know what time it is. I don't even know what day it is.
