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1 " We both knew what was happening now, and we were both grateful for it. Of all the wonderful things that humans do for dogs, this was one of the best—helping us when we are in the sort of pain that can only be eased with death. "
― W. Bruce Cameron , A Dog's Promise (A Dog's Purpose, #3)
2 " Sometimes people can’t be cheered up, no matter how much attention they get from a dog. "
3 " Grandma laughed dryly. “I think we old people sometimes forget that childhood isn’t all fun and games. You’re coping with a lot of things right now. But hurting other people because inside you’re hurting yourself is no solution to anything. I don’t think you are a bad person at heart, Grant. But if you feel that impulse again you can’t act on it. It doesn’t matter how righteous you are if you let yourself do awful things. "
4 " I know,” Wenling said. “When I first came here, everyone wanted to be friends with the Chinese girl. And you know what they serve me when I’m invited to their house for dinner? Still? Chinese food. Every. Single. Time. "
5 " Bailey, Bailey, Bailey "
6 " I wrote the first novel in the A Dog’s Purpose series to convince my then girlfriend, Cathryn Michon, that despite the pain of losing her dog Ellie, we should adopt a puppy. (It worked: we brought little Tucker into our family, and Cathryn liked the story so much she married me!) "
7 " The next evening Grandma gave me a bone with succulent meat and fat clinging to it. I slipped through the dog door, my mouth salivating. I prepared for my feast by placing the bone between my feet, lying prone, but before I could even chew, an image came to me: skinny Lacey, a sickly, sour tang on her breath—so similar to my mother dog’s exhalations in the metal den. But then we all went to live with Sam Dad and Ava, and Mother’s frame grew stocky and she no longer emitted the odor of a desperately starving animal. "
8 " It’s easier to be a dog if one accepts there are many things that are incomprehensible and just concentrate on being happy. "
