Meg Gitlin

“Loving a dog is proof alone that actions speak louder than words. You exist together, a back-and-forth, a give-and-take, as fluid and reliable as the lap of a wave along a shoreline. You sleep together, eat together, walk together, love together, and your commitment to each other never has to be stated. It just is. You get to know each other through living, the careful observation of two beings who want to understand.”
― Isabel Klee, Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About

“The air between them was changed from what he remembered. There had always been tenderness but now there was a charge, too. He was aware of his body and hers alone.”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

“The thing about family: Lots of times someone was doing something behind your back”
― Anna Quindlen, More Than Enough

“His wife had always claimed he expected too much of her, but the truth was quite different and far more damaging. He expected too little, and he always had.”
― Patricia Finn, The Golden Boy