Dog Crazy Quotes

“Love is love," I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“I've always had this feeling," Henry says, "that all dogs are really therapy dogs.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“I liked the idea of adopting a dog that was beyond the puppy stage, a dog with an unknown span of life under his belt. It seemed only fair; he didn't know what he was getting into with me either.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“This house is just a thing .... On your love list, always put the beating hearts at the top.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“Sometimes grief cuts us off from the people and activities we love for the simple reason that we don't want to feel happy, which feels too much like moving on.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“Our dogs see us at our best and at our worst, and love us with unparalleled devotion through it all. We share our lives with them. They know our deepest, darkest secrets, things that sometimes our closest human confidants don’t even know. No one should feel ashamed for caring for another being, for feeling heartbroken when a friend is gone. What is more “normal” than love?”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“...one of the hardest things about losing someone that you love is that you have to allow yourself to seek and accept comfort in other areas of your life”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“Grief, I believe, is cumulative-each experience of loss shaping the size and scope of the next, each loss holding reverberations of the losses a person has experienced over a lifetime. The pain of grief is real, but it's also an echo and an aftershock, the spirits of past emotions rising up to grip your hand again. Examine one loss and you're likely to find another inside of it, and then another inside of that one, all that grief repeating like a set of Russian nesting dolls.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“That’s the rub with dogs. We pack a lifetime of love into a too-short span of time. We have to watch them die. We have to let them go.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“I've always had this feeling," Henry says, "that all dogs are really therapy dogs."
I've probably circled this thought a thousand times, but have never formulated it so concisely before. It seems to me that it's the sort of thing only someone who loves dogs could say. "Yes, I think you're right.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“Dogs are experts at this, letting us be alone without being lonely. Letting us find a way to be content with ourselves.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“Beyond a trio of windows, the entire western half of San Francisco fans out like a sequin-strewn, patchwork gypsy skirt in shades of pearl and mauve and moss. The city is bathed in the golden glow of morning sun; the wild band of frothy sea sparkles in the distance. To the north, the bright orange crown of the Golden Gate Bridge spans the bay, majestic in the honeyed light.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“My brother Clive thinks I'm dog crazy," she says.
"In this office," I respond, deadpan, "we call it 'dog normal.'"
Anya's lip twitches. Is that the beginning of a smile? I sense something shifting between us. The line was a joke, but I was also serious. It's important that my patients know they aren't alone in caring deeply for an animal companion. Our dogs see us at our best and at our worst, and love us with unparalleled devotion through it all. We share our lives with them. They know our deepest, darkest secrets, things that sometimes our closest human confidants don't even know. No one should feel ashamed for caring for another being, for feeling heartbroken when a friend is gone. What is more "normal" than love?”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“I've always loved dogs. You know how some people can't pass a baby without stopping to coo in his pudgy little face? I'm like that with dogs. And puppies? Forget it. I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck. Some people rub Buddha bellies; I pet puppies. I've been known to trail a puppy for blocks just to have the chance. It seems to me that believing in the luck of puppies makes a lot more sense than believing in, say, a lucky number. Can a number remind you of the power of pure, unconditional love? Can a number embody loyalty or joie de vivre or goodness or friendship or... Well, you get my drift. I love dogs.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“Pet bereavement counselors hear a lot of happy stories. This always seems to surprise people, who assume sessions are soggy, heart-wrenching undertakings. Sure, there are tears, but there are also the stories of the dogs that made people feel less alone, the dogs that taught them about love, that made their hearts feel bigger and stronger. And dog people-- the majority of my patients are dog people-- have wonderful senses of humor. Some of the funniest, most uplifting stories I've ever heard have come from my patients. They're an eclectic bunch, but the stories they tell have the same simple truth at their core: dogs make us better.”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy

“Grief, I believe, is cumulative—each experience of loss shaping the size and scope of the next, each loss holding reverberations of the losses a person has experienced over a lifetime. The pain of grief is real, but it’s also an echo and an aftershock, the spirits of past emotions”
― Meg Donohue, Dog Crazy