Lost & Found Quotes

“But in this life, he is dog. His life is ocean, stick, ball, sand, grass, ride in the truck, sleep by the bed, look deep into the eyes of humans, lure them outdoors, greet them with a burst of joy when they come home, love them. Fill this brief life with more. And more.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“There is no explanation for love. But love is all that matters, isn't it?”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“Sometimes the surface is the safest place to be.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“After the first death there is no other.' - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The first death changes everything, and all deaths afterward bring us back to the first death.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“After the first death there is no other.’ Do”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“There’s no explanation for love. But love is all that matters, isn’t it?”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“She guessed he was past a turning point, early thirties, where he imagined he would know something with certainty, and he looked angry that his life was not unfolding in a way befitting him.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“Rocky had only worked once with a man who stalked his ex-girlfriend, and he came to therapy because he was convinced that going to therapy would get his girlfriend back. She had been struck by the absolute singularity of his pursuit; he became a laser beam, breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s computer, accessing her e-mail, her post office box, even tapping into her parent’s phone messages.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“During the winter people on the island either drink too much or read too much. Which are you?”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“The first death changes everything, and all deaths afterward bring us back to the first death.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“After the first death there is no other.’ Do you know who wrote that?”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“But in this life, he is dog. His life is ocean, stick, ball, sand, grass, ride in the truck, sleep by the bed, look deep into the eyes of humans, lure them outdoors, greet them with a burst of joy when they come home, love them. Fill this brief life with more. And more. A+ AUTHOR INSIGHTS, EXTRAS, & MORE… FROM”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“But here alone, not needing to take care of anyone else and not caring very much what happened because all the worst things had already happened, she stepped into the”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“Can we talk about this after we practice? I hate to say this, but I need to shoot something.” He”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“Rocky had refused to meet with her family over the holidays. “I just can’t. Not this year. I refuse to pretend that I am celebrating anything,” she told them.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“Until she met Peter, she had her meds figured out and it was like she finally got it, how to manage meds with sleep and diet. She hadn’t had a manic episode for ages until he convinced her to go off her meds and let him take care of her. He was against all medication.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“She’s a dog warden now, recently vacated from her life as a psychologist. Some sort of career move.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“Or take the heart. It was ruby red and midnight blue, a creature from the sea, a sightless fish that heard everything, vibrated to sad movies and disappointed lovers, and sent its messages in flowing movement, undulating from its core. And the whole uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries were one continent with a long string of islands on either side book-ended by volcanoes that erupted with a glistening egg each month in an unerringly egalitarian manner, one volcano never taking two turns in a row, a perfect Ping-Pong game across the continent. Tess knew the inside of her body, or anyone’s body, but hers in particular. The green rectangle had set up shop, had slipped in under cover of darkness. Had a switch been flipped somewhere else in the thin dolphin glands or the round star-shaped glands? She was sixty-eight. Was this going to be all she had? She”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“Unofficially the cops are saying it’s a suicide.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“She told him about tossing Bob’s ashes in the deep fryer at the local restaurant. She stopped and asked him if he had ever in all his years as a minister ever heard of anyone doing that”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“I’m one eighth Lakota, but I don’t think one eighth of anything counts for much. I’m half Irish, and then some Austrians got into the mix. Then there’s the English part. That’s where Hillary came from. I bet the Indians even watch the weather channel.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“Here the work had a beginning and an end, like house painting or carpentry, and if she didn’t want to talk to anyone, she didn’t have to.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“When the HMOs started haggling with her about how long to treat a person with depression or panic attacks that turned people into prisoners in their home, she knew that she would abandon her career if she had to keep dealing with insurance companies.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“She pulled into a fetal position, covered her head with the road atlas, and cried with a violence that shook the car.   Their”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“old lovers? Why didn’t you tell me?”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found