Latest Quotes

“One reason I like spending time with dogs so much is they seem to think people are really good. They live with us, and obey our rules, most of which make no sense to them. And the main reason they do it is because they like us. When I watch them, sometimes I'm so blow away by how enthusiastic they a…”

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

“What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be Truth.”

— John Keats, The Complete Poems of John Keats [Illustrated]

“Everything I know, I learned from dogs.”

— Nora Roberts, The Search

“But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love.”

— Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

“I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.”

— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (Vintage Classics)

“This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs, and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.”

— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

“A dog can be a living work of art, a constant reminder of the exquisite design and breathtaking detail of nature, beauty on four paws.”

— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

“So it goes.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

“Deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events that are beyond our control, and the betrayals we endure, from those we befriended and loved, can make us cynical and turn our hearts into flint – on w…”

— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”

— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

“Each of us had something to learn from the others and something to teach in return.”

— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Penguin Classics)

“Everything was terrifyingly complex; everything was terrifyingly simple.”

— Scott Spencer, Endless Love: A Novel

“No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unb…”

— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

“I miss her, with a never-ending ache that I did not think was possible, that crowds out any other feeling and certainly all my reason, and any good sense.”

— Kaitlyn Greenidge, We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel

“In time, she will find that it’s not actually all that hard to be captain of the ship.”

— Kristin Addis, 6 Ways A Woman’s Life Is Changed Forever When She Travels Alone

“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”

— Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“The longer she travels on her own, the more likely she is to prioritize experiences above all else. Stilettos and purses will lose their luster; she’ll crave far off places and splurge on plane tickets instead.”

— Kristin Addis, 6 Ways A Woman’s Life Is Changed Forever When She Travels Alone