“I love you, Shadow. I want you to go now,” Theo said quiet-ly. “You can go, Shadow. Walk with me. C’mon, I’m just ahead of you. Come on, climb away from that old body of yours. Walk with me. Do you see me? I’m just ahead of you on the beach. See? You can now run fast ‘cause you have all your legs, again. Can you feel them, boy?”
― the dog
― the dog
“The storm arrived without warning.”
― the dog
― the dog
“Theo watched as the cat vanished over the tie, following the walking ghost of his dog into the vast pouring-out of the teeming, bone-white, snow-white immensities.”
― the dog
― the dog
“We were put on this magical planet, not to dominate and consume her, but to care for her and love her. To harrow gently. To harvest gratefully. To build reasonably.”
― the dog
― the dog
“It would have been easy for Theo to grow ironic. He could walk through life with a paradoxical chip on his shoulder, with skin like armor. But Alice did not want to raise a boy who looked at life askew. Alice wanted her son to greet the day with elation. She wanted to raise her boy into a wholesome man.”
― the dog
― the dog
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