Helen Macdonald

H Is for Hawk

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  • Evgenia Shuyskayahas quoted8 years ago
    At its heart was a willed loss of control. You pour your heart, your skill, your very soul, into a thing – into training a hawk, learning the form in racing or the numbers in cards – then relinquish control over it. That is the hook. Once the dice rolls, the horse runs, the hawk leaves the fist, you open yourself to luck, and you cannot control the outcome.
  • Evgenia Shuyskayahas quoted8 years ago
    Mabel held her wings out from her sides, her head snaking, reptilian, eyes glowing. It felt like I was holding the bastard offspring of a flaming torch and an assault rifle.
  • Evgenia Shuyskayahas quoted8 years ago
    Flying a hawk free is always scary. It is where you test these lines. And it’s not a thing that’s easy to do when you’ve lost trust in the world, and your heart is turned to dust.
  • Mariana Azcárraga Quizahas quoted4 years ago
    The kind of madness I had was different. It was quiet, and very, very dangerous. It was a madness designed to keep me sane.
  • Mariana Azcárraga Quizahas quoted4 years ago
    Here’s a word. Bereavement. Or, Bereaved. Bereft. It’s from the Old English bereafian, meaning ‘to deprive of, take away, seize, rob’. Robbed. Seized. It happens to everyone. But you feel it alone.
  • Mariana Azcárraga Quizahas quoted4 years ago
    Their existence gives the lie to the thought that the wild is always something untouched by human hearts and hands. The wild can be human work.
  • Myhrra Dohertyhas quoted4 years ago
    By skilfully training a hunting animal, by closely associating with it, by identifying with it, you might be allowed to experience all your vital, sincere desires, even your most bloodthirsty ones, in total innocence. You could be true to yourself
  • Myhrra Dohertyhas quoted4 years ago
    He wonders if this is the most important book he’s ever written. Not because it will make his fortune. But because it will save him.
  • Myhrra Dohertyhas quoted4 years ago
    the countryside wasn’t just something that was safe for White to love: it was a love that was safe to write about. It took me a long time to realise how many of our classic books on animals were by gay writers who wrote of their relationships with animals in lieu of human loves of which they could not speak.
  • Myhrra Dohertyhas quoted4 years ago
    But the countryside wasn’t just something that was safe for White to love: it was a love that was safe to write about. It took me a long time to realise how many of our classic books on animals were by gay writers who wrote of their relationships with animals in lieu of human loves of which they could not speak. Gavin Maxwell’s
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