Mel Ellis

“He sounded concerned. “Don't do anything foolish," he said. “Don’t risk your life. No dog, not even Jet, is worth that.”

[ couldn’t quite agree with that. In my book a man should be as willing to risk his life to save a dog from suffering as he would to save a person. I suppose that sounds immature, or at least sentimental. But I know that if a barn full of horses was on fire, I’d work just as hard to save it as if the barn was full of people.”
― Mel Ellis, Ghost Dog of Killicut

“Natalie Parish summed it up for me one night. I'd taken her to Safe Harbor Inn for supper because I needed her company, and she had said: “Guy, it’s too good a story to give up. People don’t want it to disappear. Every winter they have a different one. Sometimes it’s a flying saucer. Sometimes it’s a giant ghost coyote raiding the farms. Sometimes they pick a deserted house and haunt it with ghosts. It’s a winter pastime, a game — telling stories like that.”
― Mel Ellis, Ghost Dog of Killicut