Chloe Shaw > Quotes

“It's always felt curative, walking the dogs. Ever since middle school, when I took over the job of walking Agatha, I've felt many a problem solved in the quiet, steady transmissions through a leash. If having a child is like watching your heart walk around outside your body, then walking a dog is like walking your heart. In walking dogs, my heart endures. There is the satisfaction of offering them something so pleasurable to them, but it's also being witness to it, observing them from the inside out like a field scientist making rapt note of how a dog transcribes a road.”
― Chloe Shaw, What Is a Dog?: A Memoir

“Clearly the Good Guy is also a Dog Guy.”
― Chloe Shaw, What Is a Dog?: A Memoir

“He walks over and gives me his whole head in my hands, making eye contact so hard it feels primitive, like we're the first human and wolf to meet.”
― Chloe Shaw