Isabel Klee > Quotes

“my parents were choosing the inevitable heartbreak that comes at the end of a dog’s life. They were going into it knowing how much it would hurt one day and doing it anyway. Because the loss is excruciating, there’s no way around it. But the in-between is pure magic.”
― Isabel Klee, Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About

“They love”
― Isabel Klee, Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About

“You push and you push into different corners of your mind, your body, thinning out your fears until they practically disappear altogether. Doubts just become anxiety, anxiety becomes stress, stress becomes a bad day. And bad days we can deal with, bad days pass, bad days don’t mean you’re with the wrong person. They’re just bad days.”
― Isabel Klee, Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About

“Loving a dog is proof alone that actions speak louder than words. You exist together, a back-and-forth, a give-and-take, as fluid and reliable as the lap of a wave along a shoreline. You sleep together, eat together, walk together, love together, and your commitment to each other never has to be stated. It just is. You get to know each other through living, the careful observation of two beings who want to understand.”
― Isabel Klee, Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About

“Have the best life ever,” I whispered. “You deserve it.”
― Isabel Klee, Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About

“It was in that moment I realized—losing Ruby would be the first of many great heartbreaks in my life. It was the loss of the purest love I had ever known. But, thankfully, accidentally, she had also shown me the power of a dog. Of unconditional love, of blind optimism. Of living and loving and losing and having it all be worth it.”
― Isabel Klee, Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About