I realized that today I truly understood my purpose as Ellie: not just to find people but to save them.
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W. Bruce Cameron
William Bruce Cameron (born 1960 in Petoskey, Michigan) is an American author, columnist, and humorist. Cameron is most famous for his novel A Dog's Purpose, which spent 52 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and is the first book in a two book series that concludes with A Dog's Journey. The book is the basis for the movie version starring Dennis Quaid, Britt Robertson, Peggy Lipton, K.J. Apa, Juliet Rylance, Luke Kirby, John Ortiz and Pooch Hall, an Amblin Entertainment/Reliance Entertainment/Walden Media release in theaters January 27, 2017. Cameron is also the author of the best-selling self-improvement book 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, which was later adapted into the ABC sitcom of the same name that aired between 2002 and 2005. His book, 8 Simple Rules for Marrying My Daughter, was released in 2008, and already had a Hollywood movie deal before its publication, with 89 Films and Wendy Finerman, producer of The Devil Wears Prada. Cameron is also the author of How to Remodel a Man, which was excerpted in the August 2005 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, and was the subject of the November 1, 2005 Oprah Show. His novel, A Dog's Purpose, was published July 2010 by Tom Doherty Associates. It was 19 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list in its hardcover release. The softcover version was released May 24, 2011. In total, A Dog's Purpose has spent a year on The New York Times Bestseller list (hardcover and paperback combined
When I woke up, I knew I was dying. There was a sense within me of a rising darkness, and I had faced this before when I was named Toby and was in a small, hot room with Spike and some other barking dogs.
It was starting to seem to me that just when I had life all figured out it changed.
Human motivation is unfathomable to dogs, so I wasn’t sure why the two of us were separated, but I knew that when the time came, Ethan would Find me.
Humans were capable of so many amazing things, but too often they just sat making words, not doing anything.
All I could do now was offer him comfort, the assurance that as he left this life he was not alone but rather was tended by the dog who loved him more than anything in the whole world.
The job of a good dog was ultimately to be with them, remaining by their sides no matter what course their lives might take. All I could do now was offer him comfort, the assurance that as he left this life he was not alone but rather was tended by the dog who loved him more than anything in the…
Failure is not an option if success is just a matter of trying harder.
My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in…
Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.
Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.
'Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that.
You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.