Latest Quotes

“I hadn’t expected that a tiny glimmer of hope for the future could transform someone so utterly.”

— Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel

“Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.”

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Written words can also sing.”

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir

“Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?”

— Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

“Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.”

— Amy Sedaris, Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People

“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone.”

— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel

“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.’”

— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“We humans may be brilliant and we may be special, but we are still connected to the rest of life. No one reminds us of this better than our dogs. Perhaps the human condition will always include attempts to remind ourselves that we are separate from the rest of the natural world. We are different fro…”

— Patricia B. McConnell, For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend

“This moment contains all moments.’”

— C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“All dogs are really therapy dogs.”

— Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy: A Novel of Love Lost and Found

“I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck.”

— Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy: A Novel of Love Lost and Found

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives that we have imagined.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“The moment of perceiving something beautiful confers on the perceiver the gift of life.”

— Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just

“Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horrible event the future holds for us, the dog opens a window into the delight of the moment.”

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs

“Don’t get buried in self-doubt just because someone else, no matter who they are to you in life, projects his/her own self-doubts onto you.”

— Kristin Addis, 6 Steps You Can Take To Become Fearless

“Nothing is more rewarding and admirable than leading by silent example.”

— Kristin Addis, 6 Steps You Can Take To Become Fearless

“We're all golden sunflowers inside.’”

— Allen Ginsberg, The New Anthology of American Poetry: Postmodernisms 1950-Present

“After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.”

— Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

“I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.”

— Merrill Markoe, Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel