A Dog's Promise Quotes

“It’s easier to be a dog if one accepts there are many things that are incomprehensible and just concentrate on being happy.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Promise: A Novel

“We both knew what was happening now, and we were both grateful for it. Of all the wonderful things that humans do for dogs, this was one of the best—helping us when we are in the sort of pain that can only be eased with death.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Promise: A Novel

“Bailey, Bailey, Bailey”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Promise: A Novel

“It’s about life. Don’t you think I miss your father every single moment of every day? But would I pass up the opportunity to be with him, to marry him and raise a family with him, if I knew that I would come home from the store one day and find him lying dead in the kitchen? No, because life is to be lived, Chase. Encasing your heart in stone doesn’t make it stronger, it makes it cold.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Promise: A Novel

“Everyone called the baby "Chase," which just seemed wrong. We had a Chase Dad, now we were going to have a Chase Baby? And Burke was Burke Dad?”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Promise

“I wrote the first novel in the A Dog’s Purpose series to convince my then girlfriend, Cathryn Michon, that despite the pain of losing her dog Ellie, we should adopt a puppy. (It worked: we brought little Tucker into our family, and Cathryn liked the story so much she married me!)”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Promise: A Novel

“The next evening Grandma gave me a bone with succulent meat and fat clinging to it. I slipped through the dog door, my mouth salivating. I prepared for my feast by placing the bone between my feet, lying prone, but before I could even chew, an image came to me: skinny Lacey, a sickly, sour tang on her breath—so similar to my mother dog’s exhalations in the metal den. But then we all went to live with Sam Dad and Ava, and Mother’s frame grew stocky and she no longer emitted the odor of a desperately starving animal.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Promise: A Novel

“I know,” Wenling said. “When I first came here, everyone wanted to be friends with the Chinese girl. And you know what they serve me when I’m invited to their house for dinner? Still? Chinese food. Every. Single. Time.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Promise: A Novel

“Grandma laughed dryly. “I think we old people sometimes forget that childhood isn’t all fun and games. You’re coping with a lot of things right now. But hurting other people because inside you’re hurting yourself is no solution to anything. I don’t think you are a bad person at heart, Grant. But if you feel that impulse again you can’t act on it. It doesn’t matter how righteous you are if you let yourself do awful things.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Promise: A Novel

“something”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Promise: A Novel

“Sometimes people can’t be cheered up, no matter how much attention they get from a dog.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Promise: A Novel