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“My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be. ”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“Love is love, whether it goes on two legs or four.”
― Gwen Cooper

“So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“I'd understood that when you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in somebody else, you don't look for all the reasons that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“What happened was that I caught a glimpse of something I desperately needed to believe in at that point in my life. I wanted to believe there could be something within you that was so essential and so courageous that nothing - no boyfriend, no employer, no trauma - could tarnish or rob you of it. And if you had that kind of unbreakable core, not only would it always be yours, but even in your darkest moments others would see it in you, and help you out before the worse came to the absolute worst.”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“A friend once asked me why it was that stories about animals and their heroism...are so compelling.
...we love them because they're the closest thing we have to material evidence of an objective moral order--or, to put it another way, they're the closest thing we have to proof of the existence of God. They seem to prove that the things that matter to and move us the most--things like love, courage, loyalty, altruism--aren't just ideas we made up from nothing. To see them demonstrated in other animals proves they're real things, that they exist in the world independently of what humans invent and tell each other in the form of myth or fable.”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“The beauty of having nothing to lose is that you have everything to gain”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“But the burden of appearing to be fine, so as to keep others from worrying about her, was almost worse than simply allowing herself to feel bad would have been.”
― Gwen Cooper, Love Saves the Day

“If I had learned one thing from Homer over the years, it was that just because you couldn’t quite see your way out of a difficulty, that didn’t mean a way out didn’t exist.”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“Mocho was a Spanish word that meant maimed or referred to something that had been lopped off like a stump. To call Homer el mocho was, essentially, to call him "Stumpy" or "the maimed one."
It doesn't sound particularly flattering, but among Spanish speakers the giving of nicknames is tantamount to a declaration of love. Things that would sound insulting outright in English were tokens of deep affection when said in Spanish.”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“That was something else I’d learned from Homer—sometimes, to get the things that were good in life, you had to make a blind leap.”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“Eğer Homeros'tan öğrendiğim aziz ve kıymetli bir hayat dersi varsa,o da bir canlının vaktini doldurmak için,zahmete değer projeler yaratmasının aslında ne kadar önemli olduğudur.”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“Years don't begin and end because everybody gets together at the same time and says they do. Years really start when important things happen to you. When you're born. When you find the human you're going to live with forever. Your life begins when it becomes important.”
― Gwen Cooper, Love Saves the Day

“Growing up means learning to be responsible for others—and embracing the great joys those responsibilities can bring. Homer taught me that building my life around someone other than myself, making myself responsible for someone else’s life, is one of the most rewarding differences between being a kid and being an adult.”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“He had curled himself up into a minature sphere in the farthest corner of the box, a fuzzy softball that would have fit eaisly into the palm of my hand.”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“I think the thing that drove me craziest was wondering why? Why me, why my apartment? The most maddening thing to accept is that there usually isn’t a why. Or there probably is—because effects have causes—but you’ll never know what it was. Not knowing makes it impossible to avoid having the exact same thing happen again. But it’s also liberating. The world could be dangerous and bad things sometimes happened, but there was nothing you could do except live your life. And it would be foolish if, in the process of living it, you didn’t also enjoy it.”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“This is what happens when the human you love dies. Pieces of you go missing.”
― Gwen Cooper, Love Saves the Day

“As the Talmud says, Customs are more powerful than laws.”
― Gwen Cooper, Love Saves the Day

“As long as he’s eating and he’s happy.”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer: The Ninth Life of a Blind Wonder Cat

“Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. —WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS”
― Gwen Cooper, Love Saves the Day

“Homer would scuttle up the side of my denim-clad leg (to this day, there’s nothing he loves climbing so much as a pair of jeans)”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, Grow, grow.”
― Gwen Cooper, Love Saves the Day

“There was a terrible danger in loving small, fragile things.”
― Gwen Cooper, Love Saves the Day

“Yes, he even romped like a normal kitten, despite his eyelessness. In short, he was eminently lovable … at least by all standards except the one with which most humans preoccupied themselves: his appearance. Finally,”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“They seem to prove that the things that matter to and move us the most—things like love, courage, loyalty, altruism—aren’t just ideas we made up from nothing. To see them demonstrated in other animals proves they’re real things, that they exist in the world independently of what humans invent and tell each other in the form of myth or”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“One day it’s been so long since you’ve talked to someone that it’s impossible to say the things you should have said years ago.”
― Gwen Cooper, Love Saves the Day

“Seriously. Like, insanely adorable. Those little paws, that tiny nose, those great big eyes… And that belly! That glorious, fluffy, mushy little kitty belly! It’s enough to drive an otherwise sane and sober adult to helpless, babbling lunacy.”
― Gwen Cooper, The Book of PAWSOME: Head Bonks, Raspy Tongues, and 101 Reasons Why Cats Make Us So, So Happy

“Manhattan,”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey

“be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York. After”
― Gwen Cooper, Homer's Odyssey