The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances Quotes

“Loneliness. There is no worse loneliness than the loneliness of a dog who never was anything but lonely, because the loneliness is normal, like a heartbeat. Do you think it’s easy to go to the place inside a dog where the loneliness is, when you can’t even do it with yourself?”
― Ellen Cooney, The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances: A Novel

“Sometimes when dogs greeted a returning soldier, they'd go over the edge. They would have to take a few moments to run crazily in circles around the human, or around a room or a yard. I'd have to take a break from watching, so my brain had a chance to absorb what I was seeing: that there is such a thing as joy being bigger than the container that holds it.”
― Ellen Cooney, The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances