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1 " Dogs die. But dogs live, too. Right up until they die, they live. They live brave, beautiful lives. They protect their families. And love us. And make our lives a little brighter. And they don't waste time being afraid of tomorrow. "
― Dan Gemeinhart , The Honest Truth
2 " Across far, dark miles a friend can still hold your hand and be there with you. "
3 " I thought of all my sickness, all my anger, all my fear. All that was just the darkness, just the storm. I got lost in it. But there's always the other side of the storm. And the people who get you there. "
4 " Everybody oughta have a dog," he said thoughtfully, his hand still scratching Beau. "Dogs teach you love and kindness. They remind you what's important." He nodded and took a sip of his coffee. "A life ain't much of a life without a dog in it, s'what I always said. "
5 " Here's what I don't get: why giving up always sounds good until you do it. "
6 " Waking from nightmares.Angel's voices pull me up.Leave the wolves behind. "
7 " I loved the watch until I started hating time. And how it ran out. "
8 " I don't know. I guess I like...I like...the feeling of catching something. Of saving something. It's like, I don't know, grabbing a little peice of life. All this stuff happens, all these little moments go flying past, and then they're gone. And then you're gone. But when you take a picture, that one moment isn't gone. You caught it. It's yours. And you get to keep it. "
9 " My anger was strong enough to lift me to my feet and, one raised foot at a time, push me higher into the storm.I kept going. The storm was fierce, but so was I. "
10 " I didn't say anything. Sometimes even the right answers sound wrong if you don't like the question. That's the truth. "
11 " All the world is dark.But together we build light;Shared, it keeps us warm. "
12 " But he was always there. Trusting me. Following me. My heart burned with black tears when I thought of where he was following me to. So I stoped thinking about it. "
13 " What should a friend do? How to help, when helping and hurting are the same? "
14 " Life sucks. That's the truth. Here's what i don't get: why does everyone always try to pretend that it doesn't? "
15 " I was every different kind of sad there is. And every kind of determined, too. In all that I thought of, I never thought of stopping. "
16 " The world is dark. But together we build light; shared, it keeps us warm. "
17 " She swallowed. I'm there. He didn't exactly say it proud. He didn't exactly say it scared. Like his words couldn't decide what part of his heart they came from. And her ears couldn't decide what part of her heart heard them. "
18 " Beau was a small dog. But size doesn't tell you anything about how important something is. "
19 " I don't need them," I whispered, squinting out at the town, the shadows. "I don't need anybody." It was true, maybe, but I didn't like how my words sounded more mean than strong. "
20 " They would miss me. But they would be around to miss me. They got to go on living.Jess had kept my secrect. So what. She'd had to keep the secret of where I was going to die -- but I was the one who had to go there and do the dying.My mom would never get to tuck me in, sure. But I would ever be warm again.My dad would sit alone at a dark table. I was going to die alone in a snowstorm.They would cry when I was gone, but I would be the one who was gone. They had all the tomorrows in the world to start feeling better."It's not fair!" I shouted. The wind swallowed my words and blew them to icy dust. "
