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Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets QUOTES

Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets QUOTES

1 " Without fail, he always signed off on these letters with love and he always included Whiskey and Bess in the list of individuals sending this love my way. At the time it made me laugh, it made me embarrassed, but as soon as I softened, as soon as I matured back into his son, I came to appreciate what he was saying -- an endearing and magnanimous reminder of how family will always be the sum of its individual members, be they human or animal. "

― Nick Trout , Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets

2 " Do you want to die, or do you want to die trying? Give up or give it a shot. "

― Nick Trout , Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets

3 " Returning home can be awkward for any college-age kid. We spend our teenage years learning to be obnoxious and short with our parents. We prefer to confide in friends. We connive, we become reclusive, we strive to become remote. We may still have a little voice somewhere deep inside pleading, 'Just keep loving me, I'll come back,' but for the most part, coming home from college is like reaching for the end of an umbilical cord we worked so hard to cut. We enjoy the security, the lazy familiarity, but we have left the nest, proven our capacity for independence, and now demand the respect afforded adults. "

― Nick Trout , Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets

4 " Our pets are the kids who never leave home, and that's absolutely fine by us because these kids don't ask for the keys to the car, don't turn up drunk at two in the morning, and don't complain if you turn their bedroom into a home gym. Their presence in times of upheaval and transition acts as a touchstone, a reminder of normalcy, of comfort, and the certainty of a love that can get you through. "

― Nick Trout , Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets

5 " Here was my lesson in the reach of veterinary medicine, in how an animal doctor may not be the one standing up when disaster strikes and someone shouts, 'Is there a doctor in the house?' but occasionally, if he or she is lucky, a vet can help heal a sick loved one. "

― Nick Trout , Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets

6 " ...hoping that he might peek through a gap in the fance and see that Patch was really a big softy, all bark and no bite, or, as they sometimes say in England, "All mouth and no trousers"! "

― Nick Trout , Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets

7 " Time spent with family shouldn't be the stuff of big dreams, and here was a man savoring the moment, when what we were about to share was so natural and such a basic component of who he was. "

― Nick Trout , Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets

8 " delivering the order. "

― Nick Trout , Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets