Monica Dickens Quotes

Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

No ride is ever the last one. No horse is ever the last one you will have. Somehow there will always be other horses, other places to ride them.

Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow.

Come to the stable. Come to where the horses are, and the sweet, grainy, pungent smells.

Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.

We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.