The Dog Ladies Quotes

“People will take you at your own valuation. Rip up whatever weird price tag youve stuck to your back and replace it with something better.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“you're not alone," she told him. "The whole freaking world is an as-is sale at a flea market. That's all we get. So we can take the flaws as read. What are your selling qualities?”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“She hated it when people argued with facts. So pointless. A waste of energy, like yelling at the wind or trying to hold back the tide. You couldn't do anything to a fact. It was just…there. You could note its presence and walk around it, or you could trip over it. It all depended on your tolerance for skinned knees and broken limbs. Gloria and Ryan acted”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“She hated it when people argued with facts.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“Emperor Pompey, we do not chew other people's things.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“The rest of her life wouldn't be long enough to enjoy it all. But better late than never.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“They tried throwing the ball for the doxies, who chased it happily every time and never thought to bring it back. Dachshunds had their own way of contributing to the world.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“Fen was the closest thing to a pure being Gloria had ever encountered. What was that line from Chariots of Fire? Surely, Fen felt God's pleasure each time he fetched and retrieved something successfully.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“Priya took a step toward him, just to see what would happen, and he backed away further. It was subjective data, but still interesting.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“Ask before you touch a dog you don't know,”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“If a fact was a fact, she wanted to know it herself, as tangibly and practically as possible. That instinct had left her with lots of burned fingers over the years. But it also made her very hard to fool.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“Gloria wondered how she managed to keep her eyelashes so long. Gloria's own lashes had thinned nearly to the point of nonexistence. Fled for the hills, as Roger would say, along with her eyebrows, her muscle tone, and her ability to hold her pee for very long. Aging was a nuisance.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“Thank heaven Ryan wasn't here. The poor kid would have fainted from sheer embarrassment. Or sprinted away to wash out his eyes with carbolic soap.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“I think it's amazing what a nap can do,”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“Priya hated thinking so much faster than everyone else. Waiting for others to catch up was agony.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“He would have been Me-Too'd right off the planet if he tried that nowadays. People always say it was a different time, but boy howdy, if you watch old episodes of Family Feud you can tell the women didn't like it one bit.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“That was the trouble with Google. It became a loop if you weren't careful. People citing people who cited them back and so on and so forth until lies became truth.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“She'd done it again. Wandered into her garden of thoughts to chase the butterflies.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“She had no patience for people who pined for the "good old days". The new days were fantastic. No polio—not even a little bit! And you could carry an entire computer around in your pocket, and speak to your grandkids on a video call, and read news from the other side of the world right as it happened. Those fuddy-duddies could keep the good old days.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“She got married in olden times, when there were only clunky cameras with manual settings. You put in your roll of film and snapped the pictures you snapped and odds were they were mostly terrible. And they were all you got! No re-dos!”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“A shower can do wonders," Priya remarked. "Anytime I feel out of sorts, I take a shower. Works like a charm.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“You'll be eighty-six some day, you know," she said frankly. "And then you'll realize you're not much different inside than you were at twenty-one.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“What was it Martin Luther King said? The moral arc of the universe bends toward Justice.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“Were there any truly good people? Most people were a mishmash of moral qualities. Bad and good. Or good and bad. And which one triumphed was anyone's guess.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“a good scientist weighs all available evidence.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“a good person can have a bad dog, but a good dog never has a bad person—not without some kind of outward sign, that is. We all know that plenty of good dogs get strapped with bad people. But when they do, they're unhappy. Jumpy—nervy. Afraid of their own shadows.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“You'll be better off if you don't worry about offending people,”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“She even said, "Welp," which in Midwestern dialect meant "you can leave now, if you want to," and neither of them went.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“Suppressing your quirks was a sad waste of energy in a limited human lifespan. Being one's self was tricky, but it was loads better than being someone else.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery

“Like many men of his vintage, Mike thought he was the funniest person in the room—a fact about which he was wrong roughly ninety-nine percent of the time.”
― Julie Titterington, The Dog Ladies: A Cozy Murder Mystery