A Howl In The Night Quotes

“Then Mike gets down and hugs me and talks quietly about stuff I don’t understand. He says stuff about our house and four closings and no-work and small apartments and no-dogs, but that’s all the words I understand, until he says; We’ll be back.
I know those words. They make me feel good.
We’ll be back”
― Jerry Brandon, A Howl In The Night

“Death is the escape. Evil is a curse on the living.”
― Jerry Brandon, A Howl In The Night

“Now ‘means’ is how she died, the method. Her throat was slashed with a knife. Blood everywhere. What kind of human would do something so horrible to their mate?”
“Precisely, much too messy,” Winston said. “Why not use a gun? Very impersonal. Something simple, like a Smith and Wesson thirty-eight revolver.”
“My Fresno human had the Revolver album,” said Meatloaf. “H played it a lot. He said he Beatles explored new ground with their work.”
“A gun?” I said. “Too loud. The neighbors would hear and call the cops.”
“What about hitting her on the head?” asked Gizmo. “That’s quiet. Messy, maybe - but quiet.”
Meatloaf spoke up again. “I been hit with a newspaper, it makes a loud sound. Whack! Right on the butt.”
“A crowbar. Silent but deadly.”
“Who carries a crowbar? It would be something like a tire iron.”
“Or a golf club.”
“Everybody around here plays golf.”
The pack nodded.”
― Jerry Brandon, A Howl In The Night

“For the second time in my life, Robert came and rescued me from the pound. I don’t know which time I was happier.”
― Jerry Brandon, A Howl In The Night

“I get a little nervous if I don’t get my food first-thing, ‘cause you never know if they’re gonna forget you. Sometimes humans get their priorities screwed up.”
― Jerry Brandon, A Howl In The Night

“It was long, low, and mournful, like a little hound heart was broken and nothing would ever make it right.”
― Jerry Brandon, A Howl In The Night

“Home Owner’s Association.” I said. “They’re like the Mafia, but meaner.”
― Jerry Brandon, A Howl In The Night

“Oh yeah. Judy’s mother at Thanksgiving. But that’s another, No-No, Bad Dog, story.”
― Jerry Brandon, A Howl In The Night