"I scanned the room, knowing it couldn't take long to spot Annie, who had chosen to wear a floor-length 1960s muumuu in a deep shade of turquoise that looked, I had to admit, strikingly lovely against ..."
- Meg Donohue
"This house is just a thing .... On your love list, always put the beating hearts at the top."
"Her fragility makes her uncomfortable, but it has a familiarity, too, like the biting cold of winter that you only half forget during other seasons."
"I hugged Wes and inhaled the scent of his neck- a reassuringly familiar combination of coffee and leather and something sweet I always had trouble putting my finger on. What was it? Butter from his mo..."
"Love is love," I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss."
"I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck."
"I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life."
"I've always had this feeling," Henry says, "that all dogs are really therapy dogs."
"I liked the idea of adopting a dog that was beyond the puppy stage, a dog with an unknown span of life under his belt. It seemed only fair; he didn't know what he was getting into with me either."