Emma Reumann > Emma Reumann's Quotes

“Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own.

...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain