Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice for thousands of years.
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CRAIG PHILLIPS Some dudes just know what they know, and they are fine with it. They might obsess with sex as much a... ROBERTO HOGUE It's only going to be as powerful as they really want to make it. The parents don't always know what... PEG GRIMES Dean Koontz is good in the silence makes silence... then he just attacks! - WOW DEYTH BANGER What they are doing to dogs is such a betrayal. This is an animal we have bred and selected for, for... LARRY HANSEN For families, it's a grieving process. They are losing the person they used to know. They need secur... CONNIE GENS Yeah, that's right; they were together. Someone put it very distinctly once to me when they thought ... AL PACINO Yeah, that's right; they were together. Someone put it very distinctly once to me when they thought ... AL PACINO We teach the child about his own strengths and weaknesses, and we give words they need for the thing... MEL LEVINE Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years. 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DEAN KOONTZ You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb. DEAN KOONTZ From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ... DEAN KOONTZ That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o... DEAN KOONTZ She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she w... DEAN KOONTZ For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path. DEAN KOONTZ One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I... DEAN KOONTZ I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive. DEAN KOONTZ That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber. DEAN KOONTZ Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins. DEAN KOONTZ The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with... DEAN KOONTZ The galleon clouds seemed to have dropped anchor in the sky, and the night appeared to have frozen i... DEAN KOONTZ Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog... DEAN KOONTZ it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a... DEAN KOONTZ Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it ... DEAN KOONTZ Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life c... DEAN KOONTZ There’s such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But ... DEAN KOONTZ He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was s... DEAN KOONTZ The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea... DEAN KOONTZ He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not ... DEAN KOONTZ His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cat... DEAN KOONTZ The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them... DEAN KOONTZ But this animal’s unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis’s in... DEAN KOONTZ