Where's your dog?" Peter's voice came from within the gushing stream of water. Justin thought he must have misheard." Pardon?"" Your dog."" Yes?"" Isn't he with you today?" Justin looked at Peter."Ha bloody ha." Peter stuck his head out of the stream of water, features dripping. He smiled shyly. "I love greyhounds." Justin stared." My dog is imaginary."" Oh." Peter looked interested. "That's unusual." Justin put his head under the water. When he emerged, Peter was still looking at him." Less work, " Peter offered, cheerily. "If the dog's imaginary, I mean. Not so much grooming, feeding, et cetera. Meg Rosoff
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
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Roger A. Caras
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I...
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Dean Koontz
A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in...
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John Grogan
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
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Roger A. Caras
Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
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John Grogan
More Quotes By Meg Rosoff
I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning. There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes? I know you are unable to imagine this. Nevertheless,...
Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.
Time erodes us all.
And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky...
On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as they tumbled up and over the top of the wall. Against another wall were white apple blossoms on branches cut into...
