Devoted

by Dean Koontz

Only now does he realize that the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness.

Love was the best thing when you had it, and the most terrible thing when it was taken from you.

and she was profoundly grateful to have discovered that there was life after life.

Dogs needed the hands and voices of human beings, and people needed—desperately needed—to receive unto themselves the innocence of dogs, to acquire their intolerance for deceit, and to seek to match their loyalty.

This time was different also because Woody wept, lifted by the message of undying love that she returned to him on the Wire, through the connection he’d opened for her.

In a way, they were here. In the hearts of those who had loved them. What an amazing two days these had been. From a deathbed to the birth of a new world.