Laurien Berenson > Quotes

“Men. Who needs them when you can have dogs?”
― Laurien Berenson, Once Bitten

“I’ve begun to have those stupid dreams. You know the ones where you show up for the final exam and haven’t cracked a book all semester?”
― Laurien Berenson, Once Bitten

“Your list of suspects, of course. Don’t you watch TV? Don’t you read books? How do you expect to solve a mystery if you’re not keeping a list?”
― Laurien Berenson, Jingle Bell Bark

“She approached with her tail up in the air and waving slowly back and forth. The fringe of hair”
― Laurien Berenson, Gone With the Woof

“Life is made up of small moments, most passing by in the blink of an eye, unremarked and unremarkable. But every so often one of those small moments expands and time seems to stop. We’re faced with an occurrence so intense, so monumental, that the rest of life’s cluttered minutiae simply slip away like a passing wisp of breeze. What remains is a haze of shock and emptiness, a void that we must somehow learn to negotiate. There’s an elemental shift in worldview and a lesson never forgotten: that nothing in life is as permanent as we once believed.”
― Laurien Berenson, Gone With the Woof

“Might I point out that nobody connected with my agility class has ever been murdered?”
― Laurien Berenson, Raining Cats & Dogs

“You know, a Beagle Poodle cross?” I tried to imagine a mixture of those two breeds leading to something good, and simply couldn’t. I wasn’t being Poodle-centric. I was pretty sure that Beagle breeders would have felt the same way.”
― Laurien Berenson, Doggie Day Care Murder

“The male ego is a powerful source of self-delusion.” That made me laugh. “How do they do it?” I asked. “I don’t know, but every single one of them looks in the mirror every morning and sees an Adonis staring back at him. And somehow that carries over into the rest of their lives.”
― Laurien Berenson, Gone With the Woof

“and she said she might be interested if you had any available . . .”
― Laurien Berenson, A Pedigree To Die For