Sam Ortiz’s Reviews > Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About > Status Update

That’s the magic of dogs: the simple unrelenting magic is that they don’t have to try. They heal just by existing, reminding us to live every moment to the fullest.

“It’s hard not to believe in fate, or magic, or angels, or some sort of intangible higher power when, for some inexplicable reason, a dog chooses you. It’s perhaps the purest sense of love a person can experience, the spectacular mystery of being chosen”