Garth Stein · 304 pages
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“There is no dishonor in losing the race,” Don said. “There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“Yet for every peak there is a valley.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“the race is long—to finish first, first you must finish.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“We had come so close to greatness. We had smelled it, and it smelled like roast pig. Everybody likes the smell of roast pig. But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“But I totally understood that what filled us with energy could be irritating to someone else,”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“To remember is to leave the present.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“Here’s why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak, so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never change the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another’s conversations constantly. It’s like having a passenger in your car who suddenly grabs the steering wheel and turns you down a side street. Learn to listen! I beg of you. Pretend you are a dog like me and listen to other people rather than steal their stories.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“We are the creators of our own destiny.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“Your car goes where your eyes go. Simply another way of saying that you make your own destiny.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“We all play by the same rules. But some people spend more time reading those rules and figuring out how to make them work in their behalf.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“But I wondered why they had waited for Eve’s illness to make themselves available for companionship.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.” —”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“We are the creators of our own destiny,”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“Knowing that another path might have been easier for him to travel, but that it couldn’t possibly have offered a more satisfying conclusion.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“being alone is not the same as being lonely?”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
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“All the expressions that are possible crossed its face, as if its thoughts were wise and limitless one moment, daft and animal the next. And Liga too was pulled towards awe, that this little girl-thing gave off such an air of being entitled, and then towards pity at its abjectness and its frailty and-how soft it was, the surface of it, and so warm! She could not believe the tiny makings of its mouth, or its perfected eyelashes, its ears like uncrumpling buds, all down and tenderness. She was full of the joy of her father being gone-that she could sit like this all night if she wanted, not bothered or harangued, without a remark from any other person, and watch this creature busy with its morsel of life, its scrap of sleep, its breaths light as moth-wings lifting its narrow red chest.”
― Margo Lanagan, quote from Tender Morsels
“In the nineteenth century,” he observed, “Jules Verne wrote Round the World in Eighty Days. It seemed a prodigy. Now you can get around it in four, but you do not see much of it on the way.”
― William Manchester, quote from The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
“Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Unseen Academicals
“Tears glinted in her eyes. "I want no secrets between us, Silas."
"No secrets," he echoed, his mouth near the gentle curve of her ear. "Then you should know I can hardly breathe for thinking of you. You're the most maddening lass I've ever known, and every day without you near is an agony to me." Taking her face between his hands, he moved to kiss her, but the sound of approaching horses gave him pause.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Lord above, was there a better sight than a woman flush with passion, her skin dewy and pink, her breasts bouncing from the force of his thrusts?”
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