We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.
Laura HillenbrandA lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain
Laura HillenbrandIt's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language," he once said. "Horses stay the same from the day they are born to the day they die...They are only changed by the way people treat them." (said about Thomas Smith)
Laura HillenbrandI can't describe the feeling he gave me," Howard said later, "but somehow I knew he had what it takes. Tom and I realized that we had our worries and troubles ahead. We had to rebuild him, both mentally and physically, but you don't have to rebuild the heart when it's already there, big as all outdoors.
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Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many of these men never came home; many others returned bearing emotional and physical scars that would stay with them for the rest of their lives. I come away from this book with the deepest appreciation for what these men endured, and what they scarified, for the good of humanity. It is to them that this book {Unbroken} is dedicated,
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His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.
Laura HillenbrandIt was not a great presence but a great absence, a geometric ocean of darkness that seemed to swallow heaven itself.
Laura HillenbrandWithout dignity, identity is erased.
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He (Thomas Smith) believed with complete conviction that no animal was permanently ruined. Every horse could be improved. He lived by a single maxim: 'Learn your horse. Each one is an individual, and once you penetrate his mind and heart, you can often work wonders with an otherwise intractable beast.
Laura HillenbrandThe racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself. When a horse and a jockey flew over the track together, there were moments in which the man's mind wedded itself to the animal's body to form something greater than the sum of both parts.
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