Meg Donohue Quotes

#1. I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.

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#2. I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck.

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#3. She tilts the computer screen toward Drew "A boy," she says. "Luke." ...
"Luke," Drew repeats. "Bible or Star Wars?"
"Star Wars," Vanessa says, thinking of Teri's engineer husband.

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#4. By contrast, my method of eating a cupcake was quite straightforward - step one: gobble it down one large bite at a time until there's nothing left. That's it.

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#5. 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.

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#6. This house is just a thing ... On your love list, always put the beating hearts at the top.

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#7. That's the rub with dogs. We pack a lifetime of love into a too-short span of time. We have to watch them die. We have to let them go.

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#8. Sometimes grief cuts us off from the people and activities we love for the simple reason that we don't want to feel happy, which feels too much like moving on.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. It would be a den for overgrown children looking for an indulgence, something nostalgic, something simultaneously luxurious and youthful. Much like a pharmaceutical drug or being in love, Annie's cupcakes would make you feel better.

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#12. Since when had I become such a slave to security? Since when had my dream to be my own boss morphed into merely working for my dream boss?

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#13. Just because something good happens to someone else doesn't mean something good won't also happen to you

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#14. Shoot. It's always so disappointing to realize the world goes on without me.

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#15. One of the hardest things about losing someone that you love is that you have to allow yourself to seek and accept comfort in other areas of your life

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#16. I've always had this feeling," Henry says, "that all dogs are really therapy dogs.

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#17. Hair, apparently, is the new window to the soul.

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