Lara Prior-Palmer

“Perhaps if I had said to myself, at any moment in the race, I am being competitive. I want to win and I care, I might’ve begun to find the whole competition boring. My competitiveness was like a kite I was refusing to pull down from the sky and examine. I think this increased its power over me. I rode with a mysterious compulsion, not knowing where it came from.”
― Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

“Travellers can go out into the world with their devices and prejudices intact to smooth their journeys. Yet, etymologically, a traveller is the one who suffers—or at least, one who works (travail). The traveller forgets she’s going home, and forgets herself, too.”
― Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race