The One and Only Bob Quotes

“When you forgive, you lose your anger, and when you lose your anger, you get weak.
And when you're weak, you can get hurt all over again.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“When you’ve been through the worst with someone, you appreciate the best.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Maybe it's easier to forgive others once you've learned how to forgive yourself.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“The way I understand things, it’s like this. We live on a lonely ball called Earth, and humans have basically been throwing it against the wall for so long that the poor ol’ ball is falling apart.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Maybe brave for a mouse is different from brave for me or brave for you.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“When you've been through the worst with someone, you appreciate the best.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Humans love it when we get silly. I think they're so weighed down by people problems that sometimes they need to be reminded what happy looks like.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Dogs ain't perfect. But I'll tell you one thing where we rule: tolerance.
For us, a dog is a dog is a dog. I see a Great Dane, I say howdy. I run into a puggle, it's Glad to meet ya, how's it goin', smelled any good pee lately?
Go to a dog park and you'll see. We are equal opportunity playful. You sniff my rear, I sniff yours.
You don't see that with humans, obviously. Constantly seeing differences where none exist. All those things like skin color? Dogs could care less. You think I won't hang with a dalmatian 'cause he's spotted? Or a sharpei 'cause she's wrinkled?
I'm not saying I love every dog I meet. (Snickers comes to mind.)
But I'll always give a dog the benefit of the doubt. Life is short. Play is good. And there are plenty of tennis balls to go around.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Elephant toddlers are a handful. You think humans are bad? Try putting a two-hundred-pound baby elephant in time-out.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Seems to me there are lots of ways to be brave, Bob," he said.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“I mean, I’m not an art guy. To me, art is a glop of spray cheese on a cheese dog with extra grated cheese on top.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“The goal is to get as high as you can.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“That’s the best kind of snooze, if you ask me. Good, warm, safe-in-someone’s-arms sleep.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“water bowl of power.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Then I head to the bathroom for a good, long drink from the water bowl of power.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Humans love it when we get silly. I think they’re so weighed down by people problems that sometimes they need to be reminded what happy looks like.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“I dream I'm a wolf sometimes, and when I wake up, I'm panting and my fur's on alert and I'm feeling Yeah, the world could hurt me, but I could hurt the world right back even harder. Like there's a dangerous, hard part of me chained inside, struggling to go free and just, I dunno, get even.
Then I go see what's for breakfast.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Dogs, we use the sky to tell time, like any sensible creature. Sky says it's dawn? Time to eat. It's noon? Time to eat. It's afternoon? Time to eat. It's dusk? Time to eat. It's midnight? Time to eat.
Point is, it's always time to eat.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“There was a dog on that Man's Best Friend show who supposedly understood like a thousand human words. Border collie, I think. Those guys need to switch to decaf.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“He was snoring, and man, that guy snored like a pro.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Humans love it when we get silly. I think they’re so weighed down by people problems that sometimes they need to be reminded what happy looks like. Julia”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Way I’ve always figured it, end of the day, you gotta be your own best friend. Look out for numero uno.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“You are Bob, untamed and undaunted.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Sometimes nothing is the worst sound in the world. Ruby lets out a little elephant cry, and then I realize maybe that’s the worst sound in the world.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Dogs are experts at odor. Students of stink. We analyze the air the way humans read poetry, searching for invisible truths.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“That's not brave, Bob," he finally said. "That's just knowing what I can't change."
"I call it brave," I said. "I call it crazy brave.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Probably I shouldn’t have mentioned the chimp angle.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Winter, spring, summer, fall. Chained up mostly. Flies on his food. Empty water bowl way too often. Still, he always had a nice word to say when I’d pass him on my daily rounds, checking out the neighborhood”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Sometimes nothing is the worst sound in the world.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“We smell feelings, too. Sad has a sharp scent, with an undertone of sweetness. Sad smells like being lost in a winter forest as the sun goes down. And happy? Happy is the best, but there’s a touch of wistfulness around the edges. Happy smells like bacon ice cream served up in an expensive leather shoe.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob