“But humans drive the cars and decide when dogs eat and where dogs live and clearly this was something else in their power - they could find their dogs when they needed them.”

“This was, I decided, my purpose as a dog, to comfort the boy whenever he needed me.”

“Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.”

“You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.”

“Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work.”

“We would drive to Canada, where it would probably be legal for us to get married- it was Canada where they let people do whatever they wanted because it was too cold to bother stopping them.”

“I nuzzled them both to remind them that there was really no need to grieve, since I was okay and really a much better pet than Smokey ever was.”