Little Dog, Lost Quotes

“So much longing.
So many lives
filled
with longing.

It's what stories―
all our stories―
are made of.

And what is longing
made of
except hope?”
― Marion Dane Bauer, Little Dog, Lost

“But never
in his saddest dreams
had he thought he'd spend
his last years
dusting
this enormous old house
for no one
at all.”
― Marion Dane Bauer, Little Dog, Lost

“A cry
drifted along Walnut Street,
more mournful than any tears.
It rode a puff of breeze
into the bedroom
where Mark lay,
holding himself awake.
Bark! Bark! Bark!
A-wooooo-ooo-ooo!
Bark! Bark!
Awooo!

Mark popped up like a jack-in-the-box.

The cry came again,
thin and clear.
It sounded exactly like,
“Mark, Mark Mark.
I need yoooo-ooo-oou!”

Surely he was imagining things.”
― Marion Dane Bauer, Little Dog, Lost