Kerk Murray > Quotes

“Lexi became more than just a dog to me that summer. She was my confidant, a lantern in the darkness, an angel undercover. Whenever I think of her today, I realize just how fortunate I was to have her as a friend – to have know Lexi was to have known love.”
― Kerk Murray, Pawprints On Our Hearts: How A Few Incredible Dogs Changed One Life Forever

“At the end of my days, when I have physically passed from this life into the next, if there’s any talk of my legacy, I earnestly hope that people will recall this moment. To give one the gift of discovering who they are and who they could become, to infuse them with a sense of their true worth, to walk the path with one toward their moment of redemption; I don’t know what more we could hope to experience in our lives.”
― Kerk Murray, Pawprints On Our Hearts: How A Few Incredible Dogs Changed One Life Forever

“Spartacus’s confidence in himself was slowly restored, along with his capacity to trust, all because we chose to love him relentlessly.”
― Kerk Murray, Pawprints On Our Hearts: How A Few Incredible Dogs Changed One Life Forever

“I wish for the day to arrive when you’ll bravely embrace your own fairy tale that was lived alongside the animals in your life – with all of its joys, sorrows, love, and loss. And in that moment, you’ll truly understand these animals live within us forever – leaving behind their pawprints on our hearts.”
― Kerk Murray, Pawprints On Our Hearts: How A Few Incredible Dogs Changed One Life Forever

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Kerk Murray, Since the Day We Fell