Abbey Quote by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

“Next day on returning I found him dead in the snow with his head on the sill of the door—the door of his puppyhood's…

— Ernest Thompson Seton

“The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if…

— Anthony Liccione

The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the…

— Albert Payson Terhune

The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it,…

— Henry Lawson

This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog.…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“There are no good-byes for my dog who has died, and we don't now and never did lie to each other. So now he's…

— Pablo Neruda

And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you…

— Mary Oliver

“It was a feeling which stayed with him after he got back home to his terrace house on the Kristianstad road. When he had…

— Henning Mankell

The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust…

— Gordon Korman

I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.

— Mary Russell Mitford

“Dogman remembered the smell of her hair, the sound of her laugh, the feel of her back, pressed warm and soft against his belly…

— Joe Abercrombie

I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of…

— Robert Crais