Chapter 1
"Don't speak like that about your father, Albert. He's been through a lot. It's not right." (1.12)
Chapter 2
"Mother says there's likely to be a war. [...] Something about some old duke that's been shot at somewhere." (2.15)
Chapter 3
With Albert riding me, there was no hanging on the reins, no jerking on the bit in my mouth; a gentle squeeze with the knees and a touch with his heels was enough to tell me what he wanted of me. I...
Chapter 4
"Joey is my horse. He's my horse and he always will be, no matter who buys him." (4.16)
Chapter 5
"If [Joey's] to be a cavalry horse, sir, he'll have to learn to accept the disciplines." (5.10)
Chapter 6
Captain Nicholls walked by my head turning his eyes out to sea so that no one should notice the tears in them. (6.3)
Chapter 7
"You've done that for me, Joey. Given me back my confidence. Feel I can do anything now. Feel like one of those knights in armor when I'm up on you." (7.7)
Chapter 8
Some of the horses ran into the wire before they could be stopped, and stuck there. [...] [One trooper] pulled out his rifle and shot his mount before falling dead himself on the wire. (8.4)
Chapter 9
"When noble creatures such as these are forced to become beasts of burden, the world has gone mad." (9.7)
Chapter 10
"One shell, that's all it takes." (10.9)
Chapter 11
"They like to work. They need to work." (11.6)
Chapter 12
It was the mud that was killing us one by one—the mud, the lack of shelter, and the lack of food. (12.16)
Chapter 13
"The only reason you're here is because you were brought here." (13.7)
Chapter 14
No man can move a horse that does not wish to be moved. (14.10)
Chapter 15
I stood in a wide corridor of mud, a wasted, shattered landscape, between two vast, unending rolls of barbed wire. [...] This was what the soldiers called "no-man's-land." (15.19)
Chapter 16
"We have shown them that any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other." (16.16)
Chapter 17
I reared up on my back legs and cried out to him to recognize me. (17.5)
Chapter 18
"I remember you saying that our job in the veterinary corps was to work night and day, twenty-six hours a day if need be to save and help every horse we could, that every horse was valuable in hims...
Chapter 19
When the end of the war did come, it came swiftly. [...] There was little joy, little celebration of victory, only a sense of profound relief. (19.6)
Chapter 20
"For this horse I will pay one hundred English pounds if I must do. No one will have this horse except me. This is my Emilie's horse. It is hers by right." (20.12)
Chapter 21
"My little granddaughter, Emilie, cared for [the horses] and came to love them like her own family." (21.13)