Quotes from W. Bruce Cameron

Of all the things I'd ever done, making Senora laugh seemed the most important.

Empecé a darme cuenta de que para él era importante que el juego terminara conmigo de espaldas al suelo y él mordisqueándome la cara y el cuello.

I'd had two fights in the past couple of hours; won one, lost one (to a bird)

Maggie Rose," Dad asked pleasantly, "what just barked from back there?" "A puppy?" Maggie Rose guessed. "Did you hide a dog in the back with you?" Dad asked. "Yes, but, Dad, there were some people coming to take Lily away!" Maggie Rose replied in a rush. "She wouldn't understand! She knows I'm her person! She'd think I was giving her up!

There was something wrong with this man. He didn't call me Toby. He didn't even talk to us. I thought of my first mother, the very last time I saw her, escaping the Yard because she couldn't live with humans, not even with someone as loving as Senora. But the man didn't love us at all.

Si veíamos a una persona, Madre se quedaba inmóvil, con los hombros en tensión, lista para salir corriendo.

So, what about new friends? You could make new friends," Maggie Rose suggested. Bryan snorted. "Like that's easy. By the time you're in fifth grade, all the kids have best friends already. Nobody needs a new one." He got up. "Come on, Brewster.

The way he was speaking to me reminded me of the first time Senora called me Toby. I instantly understood what was happening—just as the men had pulled my first family from the culvert, this man had taken me from the grass. And now my life would be what he decided it would be.

This whole kissing process was turning out to be far more complicated and stressful than I'd thought it would be.

Saturday the weather couldn't decide if it was ready to fully entertain winter or if we were still stuck in the fall." "...winter showed up in an angry, punishing fury...

No chickens." "Zebras?" Maggie Rose asked. Mom laughed. "Crocodiles? Anteaters? Giraffes?" Bryan guessed. All the humans in the car were laughing, so I wagged. People don't have tails to let others know they're happy, but laughter is the next best thing.

O fracasso não é uma opção quando o sucesso é só uma questão de mais esforço.

John Lennon dijo que la vida es lo que sucede mientras hacemos otros planes.

Empezaba a pensar que cada vez que me parecía que entendía lo que era la vida, esta cambiaba.

I have tried carrots before. They are not too bad, even though you have to chew at them a lot. They come apart in bits, like a squeaky toy. And you can swallow them, just like pieces of a squeaky toy. But they are not treats. So I kept doing Sit, waiting for the real dog treat.

O fracasso não é uma opção quando o sucesso é só uma questão de mais esforço. - Quatro Vidas de um Cachorro.

Come on, Alan, you want me to believe you've been asleep for eight years? Nobody's that depressed.

How do you convince your split personality that he's not real?

Oh, that's just great, Alan. You come into my head, you start calling me "we," when I sleep at night you're driving around in my truck, and you think it's a bad idea to mess with other people's lives?

Obviously, I was more special than they were, because I got to be outside of the kennels and next to my girl.

Being a repo man requires what Milt calls "nerves of stupidity":

Hey, there, little fella!" he called. I looked at him uncertainly. What kind of a person was this? What would those hands be like? Would they push me aside, like the first man I had known? Or would they be patient and gentle? "You lost, fella? You lost?" I wasn't sure about the hands yet, but the voice was kind. And he was talking right to me. The first man had never done that. And he'd never kneeled down so that he was close to my level, either.

I'll splatter whatever I want, whenever I want,

Bailey, Bailey, Bailey