"Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables."
About Monica Dickens
Monica Dickens — Life and Legacy
Monica Dickens was a prominent British author and the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, recognized for her keen observations of love and human nature. Her distinctive voice shines through in works like 'The Winds of Heaven,' where she intricately weaves themes of emotional complexity and interpersonal relationships. Dickens's key ideas revolve around the duality of human experience, often portraying characters who navigate the tumultuous waters of love and personal conflict. In her writing, she captures the essence of human emotions, as seen in her reflections on kindness and vulnerability. For instance, she illustrates that love is not merely a romantic ideal but a challenging journey filled with both joy and heartache. The relevance of her quotes today lies in their ability to resonate with readers facing similar emotional dilemmas. Dickens's exploration of love and human nature continues to provide insight into the complexities of relationships, making her work a timeless reflection on the human condition.
Quote collection
Monica Dickens quotes
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"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 you onto this marvelous partnership that makes you wonder, "What can heaven offer any better then what I have here on earth?"."
"If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you on a comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back like a fireside chair... when I can't ride anymore, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them."
"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."
"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 that, there would be no hospital nurses, for compared dispassionately with other professions, the hours are long, the work hard, and the pay inadequate to the amount of concentrated energy required. A nurse, however, does not view her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her."
"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."
"Come to the stable. Come to where the horses are, and the sweet, grainy, pungent smells."
"The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow."
"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."
"We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength."