Gecko

“And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old—or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.”
― Mary Oliver, Dog Songs: Poems

“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“dogs and angels are not
very far apart”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.”
― Martin Luther