26 Quotes by Monica Dickens

What else happened?' she asked, not because she was particularly interested, but because one must talk to one's mother when she came to visit one, however tired and dispirited one felt.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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