How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

by Sy Montgomery

“Love is not changed by death,” read the quote by British poet Edith Sitwell, “and nothing is lost, and in the end, all is harvest.”

“Oh, but you do feel them,” he said gently. “What you are feeling when you miss them is not their absence. It’s their presence.”

A far worse mistake than misreading an animal’s emotions is to assume the animal hasn’t any emotions at all.

You never know, even when life looks hopeless, what might happen next. It could be that something wonderful is right around the corner.