402 quotes found
“If you were an animal, what kind would it be?""A dog. I'd take people in my teeth like rats and shake some sense into them.”
“Best not to ask "What is it?" until you finish rolling in it.”
“I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything in its way mattered, that working hard mattered, that feeling things mattered...”
“A black pit bull barreled against the fence, jaws dripping with saliva, viciously barking like Old Yeller after the hydrophobia kicked in.”
“With one hundred miles left to go in the Klondike 200 I began imagining how amazed people would be at the finished line. Entering the Klondike, my sights had been set on merely finishing.”
“It had come from one of two corgis who were even now slamming their preposterous bodies into each other not far away, trying to roll each other over, which runs contrary to the laws of mechanics ev...”
“The windows on the Dovetail side of the gatehouse were larger, and she could see the two corgi dogs outside, peering in through the lead latticework, flabbergasted that they had, through some enorm...”
“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 th...”
“If anyone had asked Royce Melborn what he hated most at that moment, he wouldve said dogs. Dogs and dwarves topped his list, both equally despised for having so much in commoneach was short, viciou...”
“There is little that a puppy won't fix, even if the fix is for a short time.”
“In fact it was altogether an odd dog, of uncertain breed, or breeds. It was large and black, but its hair was tufty, its body scrawny and clumsy, and its manner edgy, anxious, verging on the comple...”
“So what part did I play in all this? Well, none really. They completely ignored me for the whole twenty or thirty minutes. Which was perfectly fine, of course, I didnt mind. But it did puzzle me, b...”
“A strong man next to you in bed is a comfort, but real security is a German Shepherd bitch on guard at the door.”
“She was better with animals than people. Give her a sick cat or dog, she was golden. Not so much with her own species.”
“When the soul-penetrating pathos she was beaming at me failed to prevent me from continuing to put things in boxes, the helper dog became increasingly alarmed. Over the ensuing few days, she slowly...”
“It was an ancient policy with her to be on good terms with anything that outweighed her and had so many teeth, so she broke the bacon in two and gave him the smaller piece. He was a dog. He would n...”
“May I tell you a wonderful truth about your dog? ... You have been given stewardship of what you in your faith might call a holy soul.”
“Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.”
“With some dogs you share a boil in the bag breakfast and maybe a blanket on a cold desert floor. Some you wouldn't leave in charge of your Grandma unless you wanted to find out just how fast the ol...”
“People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.”
