For Kicks Quotes

“I do a job which I ought to find satisfying, and it leaves me bored and empty."
"A diet of milk and honey, when you have teeth," he observed.”
― Dick Francis, For Kicks

“When I had finished dressing, I took another look in the same long mirror. There was the man who had come from Australia four months ago, a man in a good dark-gray suit, a white shirt, and a navy-blue silk tie; there was his shell, anyway. Inside I wasn't the same man, nor ever would be again.”
― Dick Francis, For Kicks

“The Victorians who had built the place had not intended importunate men friends to batter down the girls' doors. They were a solid job. But in the view of the thin woman's calm assumption that breaking in was within my powers, I didn't care to fail. I broke the lock with my heel, in the end. The wood gave way on the jamb inside the room, and the door opened with a crash.”
― Dick Francis, For Kicks

“On the day I left, when I gave her a gold bracelet, she kissed me and told me not to come back, as things were never as good the second time. She was God's gift to bachelors, that girl.”
― Dick Francis, For Kicks