Quotes from Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Dogs never lie about love.

Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel.

Dogs love us not only because we feed them, walk them, or groom them, or protect them, but because we are fun. How astonishing!

Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.