Latest Quotes

“Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter ac…”

— Dean Koontz, Ashley Bell: A Novel

“Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”

— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“If it weren't for the animals waiting for her, she wouldn't bother getting out of bed.”

— Dale Mayer, Tuesday's Child

“Sometimes, your pet picks you.”

— Julie Wenzel, Alone I Walk

“When I held my new puppy in my arms, I broke down in tears. Because I had fallen in love. Not somewhat in love. Not partly in love. Not in a limited amount. I fell fully in love with a creature I had known for all of nine hours.”

— Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus

“He was soon born away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.”

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is a short parenthesis in a long period, and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.”

— John Donne, The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics)

“Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.”

— Oliver Gaspirtz, A Treasury of Pet Humor

“I know how betrayal and disillusionment feel, when someone who could give you the world refuses even a tiny piece of it.”

— Mary Kubica, The Good Girl

“Dogs look at you with both eyes open. Emotions on a sleeve, that wagging tail.”

— S.L. Northey, Good Grieving

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de La Mancha (Modern Library (Hardcover))

“I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions.”

— Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”

— Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.”

— Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their food bowls sparkling clean and fresh water in their water bowls. That I brushed them so their coats shined, and played with them until all our hearts were be…”

— Blaize Clement, The Cat Sitter's Whiskers: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery (Dixie Hemingway Mysteries)

“Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog's owner. But no man--spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort--may become a dog's Master without consent of the dog. Do you get the difference? And he whom a dog once unreservedly accepts as Master is forever that dog's God.”

— Albert Payson Terhune, Lad: A Dog

“For you, a thousand times over’”

— Khaled Hosseini, By Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner Paperback

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”

— Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Our pets are the kids who never leave home, and that's absolutely fine by us because these kids don't ask for the keys to the car, don't turn up drunk at two in the morning, and don't complain if you turn their bedroom into a home gym. Their presence in times of upheaval and transition acts as a tou…”

— Nick Trout, Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight Pets