Susan Wilson > Quotes

“The two, man and dog, stare at each other for a moment, the man taking great comfort in the reflection of himself in the dog’s brown eyes—the only eyes that don’t look at him with disappointment.”
― Susan Wilson, One Good Dog

“I once was powerful and feared. Now I was loved. A much bigger deal.”
― Susan Wilson, One Good Dog

“A lesson learned. Don’t hang out with friends who will abandon you to puke in the bushes alone and leave you vulnerable to purse snatching, and be glad it wasn’t anything more dire.”
― Susan Wilson, One Good Dog

“You can’t dwell on the past. You have to move forward.”
― Susan Wilson, One Good Dog

“The past is like a series of black curtains; each one covers the essential scenes of a life that only in the last half decade has become less damaged.”
― Susan Wilson, The Dog Who Danced

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― Susan Wilson, Two Good Dogs

“You can’t live most of your life with anger your primary emotion.”
― Susan Wilson, The Dog Who Danced

“Everyone knew of the guy who chose to live on the street rather than in his home, where his abandoned wife or caring children couldn’t keep him. Common knowledge. Or the guy who just fucked his life up so badly, no one wanted to be near him, his own violence and temper putting him on the street. The guy who won’t even try to hold on to his family.”
― Susan Wilson, One Good Dog

“What I wonder is how I’ve managed to find him, this white knight. Life is so random. I would have to be a philosopher to even begin to understand how life isn’t really lived in the big picture, but moment to moment.”
― Susan Wilson, The Dog Who Danced

“You’ve got to be tough to live in this world, whether your lip is curled in real anger or fear aggression, you have to be willing to carry out the threat.”
― Susan Wilson, One Good Dog

“Dogs are existentialists. We think of now. But we do have a capacity for learning, which is predicated on our understanding of the past, not as some block of time, but as an action, a pain, a smell. Our idea of the future is limited to hunger pains, I will eat, and anticipation of a walk at a certain time every day.”
― Susan Wilson, One Good Dog

“I want to tell my son, a grown man now, that life is too short not to tend to the relationship you care most about. So I just say it. “I love you.”
― Susan Wilson, The Dog Who Danced

“I won’t think about life without him. I will go to the ends of the earth to find him. Too many others in my life have chosen to live without me; I will not choose to live without Mack. Not when there’s the slightest hope.”
― Susan Wilson, The Dog Who Danced