Julie Klam > Quotes

“More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people".”
― Julie Klam, Love at First Bark: How Saving a Dog Can Sometimes Help You Save Yourself

“A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they choose to stay with you. In that way, they are also giving you the end of their life. The deeper the bond, the harder it is to say good-bye. I know I’d rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.”
― Julie Klam, You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness

“Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.”
― Julie Klam, You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness

“You come into this world alone and die alone, but there's a really long stretch in the middle that can be extraordinarily meaningful and even fun with the right people. And when it's not fun, they'll be with you, too.”
― Julie Klam, Friendkeeping: A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate, and Can't Live Without

“Friendship might be free, but it requires a real, solid investment. And you know, the occasional baked good never hurts”
― Julie Klam, Friendkeeping: A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate, and Can't Live Without

“Mostly, it was just me walking them. My own private Iditarod. And it wasn’t a picnic. Just so you know, if you ever see a person walking four dogs, there are two things you can cross off your list of what to exclaim: (1) “Who’s walking who?” and (2) “Looks like you got your hands full.” Both lines are stupid and someone else has already said them. You might consider saying, “Hey, pretty girl!” or “Wow, four dogs sure make you look thin!”
― Julie Klam, You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness

“In 1900, George and Clara Morris and their four children, Samuel, Selma, Marcella, and Malvina, left Bucharest, Romania, and boarded a ship for New York City. When they arrived in the United States, they stayed in New York City for a few weeks and then decided to move to Los Angeles, where George wanted to become a director in the movie business. Along the way, in St. Louis, Clara had another baby and died in childbirth. George put the children in an orphanage there before heading on to Los Angeles, where he promised to send for them. The children stayed in the orphanage until the oldest child, Marcella, was able to make enough money to get them all out. She moved them back to New York City, where she became the first Jewish female to hold a seat on the Wall Street stock exchange, where she made millions of dollars that she later gave to Brandeis University. She lived with her sisters in an apartment on Charles Street in Greenwich Village and had a house in Southampton, New York, and somewhere along the way had an affair with J. P. Morgan. Interesting? You bet. But don’t worry about remembering any of this, because it’s 90 percent wrong, which I didn’t find out until years later.”
― Julie Klam, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

“How does knowing where we are from inform who we are now?”
― Julie Klam, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

“It turns out, after a lot of exploration, that I'm not really a princess. A swell gal, sure, but not a princess.”
― Julie Klam, Please Excuse My Daughter: A Memoir

“But if they've helped form you into who you are, then they never really leave you; they're always with you in whatever you do, and maybe that's the point.”
― Julie Klam, On Being 40

“It's important to remember that people can go off the deep end; it doesn't mean they have to stay there. And when they come back, it's nice to have a friend waiting with a warm towel.”
― Julie Klam, Friendkeeping: A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate, and Can't Live Without

“I guarantee that at some point in your life, something you told someone not to tell anyone ever was told to many, many other people with that same instruction. If there's something you don't want anyone to know: Don't. Tell. Anyone.”
― Julie Klam, Friendkeeping: A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate, and Can't Live Without

“Rescuers don’t have capes and wrist web-shooters and X-ray vision, but there is a superpower that comes from knowing you’re making a difference in the world around you. And like the ability to walk on a leash, it makes anything feel possible.”
― Julie Klam, Love at First Bark: How Saving a Dog Can Sometimes Help You Save Yourself

“I do believe giving advice is a -- maybe at times misguided -- form of showing care, as much as we might chafe at it. If you look at where it's coming from, a loving place, and take it with a modicum of grace, you can allow your friends to care for you. And as my mother says, God willing, you'll live long enough to give them unwanted advice right back”
― Julie Klam, Friendkeeping: A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate, and Can't Live Without