Lost Dog Quotes

“I think people have this mistaken notion that if you have a couple of kids, it’s not quite as terrible losing one of them because you still have the others. But love is unique, just as loss is.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“Maybe it was that Hamlet line he referenced, where he wrote about someone who was “protesting” too much.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“You can’t fool me,” I told him. “You were probably sleeping on the sofa, and when you heard me pull into the driveway, you ran to the door to make it look as if you’d been pining for me all morning.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“The recessional of “Amazing Grace” was familiar to all. John Newton had written the hymn, and I wondered how many people in the church knew that he’d been a slave-ship captain before realizing the error of his ways and becoming an abolitionist.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“I suggested we name one of the children Silence,” said Dion, “a greatly underrated virtue.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“Tails often say a lot more than mere words.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“German shepherds want to please their handlers.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“To Aristotle, who said the antidote to fifty enemies was one friend.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“One day I should write a paper on Michael Gideon’s Asshole Scale and determine if there is a correlation with Dante’s Circles of Hell.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“Home is where the dog is.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“And he told me illegitimi non carborundum translates to, ‘Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“As a rule, Heather didn’t believe in pity parties.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog

“Mark Twain’s words: Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
― Alan Russell, Lost Dog