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

- Monica Dickens

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 selfi…

- Monica Dickens

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

- Monica Dickens

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.

- Monica Dickens

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

- Monica Dickens

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

- Monica Dickens

You and your horse. His strength and beauty. Your knowledge and patience and determination and understanding and love. That's what fuses the two of y…

- Monica Dickens

Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like …

- Monica Dickens

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

- Monica Dickens