Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
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… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I have… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“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… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
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… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim.… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share
It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share
Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share
Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share
“Life had this unmoored quality, full of voids and barely acknowledged yearnings, and if I'd made a list of things I wanted desperately at… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share
The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share
When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share
The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share
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… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share
Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share
These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share
