Gwen Cooper

“He had curled himself up into a minature sphere in the farthest corner of the box, a fuzzy softball that would have…

— Gwen Cooper

“Mocho was a Spanish word that meant maimed or referred to something that had been lopped off like a stump. To call…

— Gwen Cooper

“This displacement between then and now created an ever-present sense of unease, like a low-frequency sound she couldn't hear clearly enough to…

— Gwen Cooper

“I think the thing that drove me craziest was wondering why? Why me, why my apartment? The most maddening thing to accept…

— Gwen Cooper

So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I…

— Gwen Cooper

Love is love, whether it goes on two legs or four.

— Gwen Cooper

Have you seen a blowfish driving a sports car?

— Gwen Cooper

“There was a terrible danger in loving small, fragile things.”

— Gwen Cooper

“I'd understood that when you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in somebody else, you don't look for all the reasons that might…

— Gwen Cooper

“A friend once asked me why it was that stories about animals and their heroism...are so compelling. ...we love them because they're…

— Gwen Cooper

“The beauty of having nothing to lose is that you have everything to gain”

— Gwen Cooper

“Homer would scuttle up the side of my denim-clad leg (to this day, there’s nothing he loves climbing so much as a…

— Gwen Cooper

Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.

— Gwen Cooper

“What happened was that I caught a glimpse of something I desperately needed to believe in at that point in my life.…

— Gwen Cooper

My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved…

— Gwen Cooper

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

— Gwen Cooper

“But the burden of appearing to be fine, so as to keep others from worrying about her, was almost worse than simply…

— Gwen Cooper