“ ... Denny was in third place, behind two other cars. They drove past us, and when they came back around for the checkered flag, Denny was by himself; he won the race. When asked how he had overtaken t… Garth Stein
“ Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain. Garth Stein
“ I believe that people were not so allergic to their environment until they began polluting themselves and their world with so many drugs and toxins. Garth Stein
“ We were both satellites orbiting Denny’s sun, struggling for gravitational supremacy. Of course, she had the advantage of her tongue and her thumbs, and when I watched her kiss and fondle him sometime… Garth Stein
“ I also believe that man’s continued domestication (if you care to use that silly euphemism) of dogs is motivated by fear: fear that dogs, left to evolve on their own, would, in fact, develop thumbs an… Garth Stein
“ If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write great books. And yet you don't teach me to read, and you don't gi… Garth Stein
“ Growing old is a pathetic thing. It is full of limitations and reduction. It happens to us all, I know; but I think that it might not have to. I think it happens to those of us who request it. And in… Garth Stein
“ We are all connected -- I believed it then and believe it still now -- at least in an energetic sense. And who’s to say this energy is not real? We can’t see gravity, either, yet we don’t deny it. We… Garth Stein
“ I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog. Garth Stein
“ Such a simple concept, yet so true. That which we manifest is before us, we are the creators of our own destiny. Garth Stein
“ I missed Eve so much I couldn't be a human anymore and feel the pain that humans feel. I had to be an animal again. Garth Stein
“ Terriers are problem solvers. They'll do what you tell them, but only if it happens to be in line with what they wanted to do anyway. Garth Stein
“ ...that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignoranve, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves Garth Stein
“ Eve continued with the inexorable process of dying, Zoe spent too much time with her grandparents, and Denny and I worked at slowing the beating of our hearts so we wouldn't feel so much pain. Garth Stein
“ Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral state; it is like a blind fish at the bottom of the ocean wi… Garth Stein
“ Could Denny have possibly appreciated the subjective nature of loneliness, which something nature of loneliness, which is something exist only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unab… Garth Stein
“ In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as… Garth Stein
