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“It was an empty landscape where no creature stirred and all was silent except for the cry of a distant bird, and yet I felt a further surge of excitement in the solitude, a tingling sense of the nearness of all creation.” - 7

“Maybe ye don’t know it, Mr. Herriot, but this is the best time of your life…only a lot of folk don’t know it and a lot find out when it’s too late. It doesn’t last long, you know.” - 369

“You’re never alone when you’ve got a dog.” - 227

“I gazed at little Jimmy, then glanced at the other end of the room where a cot stood to receive Rosie. Soon, I thought, I would have two in here. I was becoming rich.” - 165

“It was up here in the airy heights that you found true serenity. Peace dwelt here in the high mooreland, stealing across the empty miles, breathing from the silence.” - 253

“Was it too much to think that that dying little creature with the last of her strength had carried her kitten to the only haven of comfort and warmth she had ever known in the hope that it would be cared for there? Maybe it was.” - 85

“I don’t think he ever cared for any living thing in his life.” “You’re not entirely right. There was one living thing…” - 51

“It was the greatest good fortune not only to be fascinated by animals but to know about them. Suddenly the knowing became a precious thing.” - 377

“I had found Christmas and peace and goodwill and everything back there. Farmers? They were the salt of the earth.” - 179

“There was the growing realisation, deep and warm, that this was for me. There was nothing else I’d rather do.” - 41

“This was always the best part, the wonder that was always fresh, the miracle you couldn’t explain.” - 19

“Maybe the builder had stood here and looked across the green vastness and breathed in the cold, sweet air and thought it was enough.” - 396

“Why had he filled the last years of those two old horses with peace and beauty? Why had he given them a final ease and comfort which he has withheld from himself? It could only be love.” - 285

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.” - 270

“I couldn’t see a living soul; and the peace which I always found in the silence and the emptiness of the moors filled me utterly.” - 215

“A bitterly cold evening when I had delivered twins on a wind-scoured hillside; the lambs…struggling upright and making its way, unsteady, knock-kneed, towards the udder…The shepherd…gave a slow chuckle. “How the ‘ell do they know?” He had seen it happen thousands of times and still wondered. So do I.” - 147

“I couldn’t say how long I had been standing there looking at the wonder that never grew stale; the little pigs struggling on to their legs and making their way unguided to the long double row of teats; the mother with her first family.” - 116

“Maybe that’s the last thing we forget. Or we never forget it at all. Not really. We lose the words to say it. We lose the ability to show it. But we never lose the ability to feel it or recognize it when we see it. Love is the brightest color in a gray world.” - 347

“I would trade everything for one more day with my wife. Everything…what you have with here? That is not easy to find. The universe doesn’t hand out true love…so if you have that, if you’re one of the lucky ones, why in God’s green earth would you give it up?” - 328

“I’d like to look back on my life and remember every single thing. But if I don’t, I hope I remember that it was a love story. And that the love story was about you.” - 324

“I’ve always loved you. I think I couldn’t forget you because I remember you from a different lifetime. And I loved you then too.” - 289

“‘If you gad the power to erase every memory of me so you didn’t know what you were missing, would you do it?’ ‘No, I wouldn’t do it.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because life wouldn’t be worth living if I didn’t remember you.’” - 281

“I think there are two types of people you fall in love with. The ones who are a good fit…it’s good. Great even. You can live your whole life with this person and be madly in love and never want anything different…unless you’ve already met the other type of person you fall in love with. The One. The person who was made just for you. And you only ever get the one. Samantha was my one.” - 279

“I would be content just following her around a grocery store in exchange for nothing more than the moment that I wouldn’t even remember later.” - 243

“If you were my wife you would be my world. Everything starts and ends with you. Anything else is just the stuff that happens in the middle.” - 241

“It’s weird knowing what’s going to be in your end-of-life montage, as it’s happening. But I already knew when my life flashed before my eyes, the best parts of it were going to be about her.” - 212