W. Bruce Cameron Quotes

...I hoped he wouldn't cry over my death. My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy.

I tried to be comfortable in the rough, cold sand, pressed up against Tutu Nani's leg. I could feel some of the fear leaving her as I lay there, so I didn't try to change position. Having a dog nearby always makes things better.

Both boys ate some of the dog snacks, which I found both odd and disturbing.

struggled to get down to play with this new friend, but Ethan held me tight.

Somehow I knew that puppies were meant to leave their mothers.

My last thoughts,as I drifted off, were as always, of the boy

It wasn’t as much fun as being a doodle dog, but I now knew why these creatures, these human beings, had so fascinated me from the moment I saw them. It was because my fate was inextricably linked with theirs.

The twist in his lower back that was aggravated by lifting objects, or sneezing, or moving, or not moving. No one had ever told him that growing old would hurt so much.

It’s easier to be a dog if one accepts there are many things that are incomprehensible and just concentrate on being happy.

failure isn’t an option if success is just a matter of more effort.

Clarity was looking down and seemed unhappy, so I put my paws on her chest and tried to lick her face. In my experience, being licked by a dog can cheer up just about anybody.

Now what? Was I to be reborn over and over, forever? Could a dog have more than one purpose? How was that possible?

I could get up on that bed and curl up right next to my boy’s warmth. The boy loved me. I loved him. From the second we woke up until the moment we fell asleep, we were together.

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) and Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (Mariner Books, 2006).

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that's counted truly counts.