Toby Barlow

“The heart is a bloody thing. ”

— Toby Barlow

“Each dog marks a section of our lives, and in the end, we feed them to the dark, burying them there while…

— Toby Barlow

“Knowing someone isn't coming back doesn't mean you ever stop waiting”

— Toby Barlow

There's so much we can learn from dogs to become better humans.

— Toby Barlow

“That's what love does/ It chases the dragons away/ before their claws can sink in.”

— Toby Barlow

“Like so much of the trouble in the world it ends simply with exhaustion.”

— Toby Barlow

“There are two things that make the conscious world move, decision and desire.”

— Toby Barlow

“As she stared at the ceiling that first night her body softly falling back into itself, she thought of how we dream…

— Toby Barlow

“Luck is stupid as a cow and blind as a bat.”

— Toby Barlow

“You either trust or you distrust coincidence. It 's either small doses of magic pulling you to your appointed destiny or the…

— Toby Barlow

“Call him Judas if you want but he did it for reasons much older than silver.”

— Toby Barlow

“Everyone is always looking in the wrong direction, we worry about our lovers while losing our jobs we stress out about cancer…

— Toby Barlow

“This is all we are at our best, he thought, tiny instances accumulating up into a greater whole. There is noting magnificent…

— Toby Barlow

L.A. is a strange town at night. Everyone in L.A. goes to sleep really early, because they have to get up to…

— Toby Barlow

I think that dogs accept that they can live together and not understand one another, and I think that we somehow always…

— Toby Barlow

“Days grow hotter and life grows shorter. Time is somehow running out. She flips her pillow so she won't have to sleep…

— Toby Barlow

“Blood, fat, marrow, grease, sinew, muscle, guts, hide, fur, sleep They may twitch in their dreams when they sleep but they sleep…

— Toby Barlow

“he knows that it's impossible to tell a wolf from a man if he keeps his chin up and his teeth clean.”

— Toby Barlow

“She would say 'Bucket moon' he would answer 'Ladle moon.' Night after night sky revealed a bitten moon, a butcher's moon, an…

— Toby Barlow

I think when Aristotle said that man is a political animal, he was really saying that man is a pack animal.

— Toby Barlow

“There in that embrace, she feels something shuffling around, moving warily fumbling through the dusty rooms of her heart, and, one by…

— Toby Barlow

“Immediately he surprised her, for she like the way he kissed, like a man who wanted to swallow life.”

— Toby Barlow

“... she tried to avoid his gaze but he held her steady and would not look away, Finally her eyes spoke to…

— Toby Barlow

“You can’t own something unless you can swallow it”

— Toby Barlow

“... she suspected Oliver only wanted some token acknowledgment that despite her moving on, their exchange had not been completely superficial. She…

— Toby Barlow