The Art of Racing in the Rain

by Garth Stein

Learn to listen! I beg of you. Pretend you are a dog like me and listen to other people rather than steal their stories.

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.

To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.

That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me. Is