Caroline Knapp Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

• The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Lying, Kissing

  Caroline Knapp (2010). “Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs”, p.215, Dial Press

• Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and it was something of a miracle to me to be on the receiving end of all that acceptance. The dog didn't care what I looked like, or what I did for a living, or what a train wreck of a life I'd led before I got her, or what we did from day to day. She just wanted to be with me, and that awareness gave me a singular sensation of delight.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Acceptance, Train Wrecks

  Caroline Knapp (2010). “Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs”, p.34, Dial Press

• Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Might, Way

  Caroline Knapp (2010). “Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs”, p.6, Dial Press

• I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue and without a dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give, dogs can introduce us to several colors with names like wildness, nurturance, trust and joy.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Color, Names

• Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Falling In Love, Attachment

  Caroline Knapp (2010). “Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs”, p.7, Dial Press

• I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Different, Way

• Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

  Caroline Knapp

  Mother, Dog, Short Life

• I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Thinking, Healthy

  Caroline Knapp (2010). “Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs”, p.6, Dial Press

• All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Guides, Needed

  Caroline Knapp (2010). “Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs”, p.224, Dial Press

• Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Fantasy, Disappoint

  Caroline Knapp (2010). “Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs”, p.35, Dial Press

• My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.

  Caroline Knapp

  Friday, Dog, New York

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