“ And from the look on his face I could see he was one of the lucky ones, one of those people who like doing what they're good at. That's rare. When you see that in a person, you can't miss it. David Wroblewski
“ It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out. David Wroblewski
“ AlmondineEventually, she understood the house was keeping a secret from her.All that winter and all through the spring Almondine had known something was going to happen, but no matter where she looked… David Wroblewski
“ Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives. David Wroblewski
“ He had also been demonstrative and intelligent from the very beginning, his questions startlingly insightful. She would watch him absorb a new idea and wonder what effect it would have on him, because… David Wroblewski
“ Edgar, do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone? There's no rule book that says how to do this." She laughed, bitterly. "Wouldn't that be great?… David Wroblewski
“ Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing… David Wroblewski
“ Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same. David Wroblewski
“ So a dog's value came from the training AND the breeding. And by breeding, Edgar supposed he meant both the bloodlines - the particular dogs in their ancestry - and all the information in the file cab… David Wroblewski
“ A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there must be an alternative, neither willfulness nor resignation. He couldn’t p… David Wroblewski
“ Edgar, there's a difference between missing him and wanting nothing to change," she said. "They aren't the same things at all. And we can't do anything about either one. Things always change. Things w… David Wroblewski
“ We'll know we've got it right when they choose for themselves," he used to say. That doesn't make sense. 'That's what I thought too. I asked him what he meant, but he just shrugged. I don't think he k… David Wroblewski
“ That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There w… David Wroblewski
“ No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something better than the factory man. That is, and has always been, beyond the realm of scien… David Wroblewski
“ She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time, though she hadn't understood why... Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the… David Wroblewski
“ She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable hunger for more of it, though she hadn't understood why. Now sh… David Wroblewski
“ Do you think there is heaven or hell? he signed.‘I don’t know. Not in the Christian way, if that’s what you mean. I think people have a right to believe in whatever they want. I just don’t.’…If someon… David Wroblewski
“ ...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone? David Wroblewski
“ It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands. David Wroblewski
