Quotes from John Grogan

Life and love with the worlds worst dog

A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

he was immune to pain, an unstoppable machine of muscle and sinew.

A un perro no le importa si uno es rico o pobre, educado o iletrado, listo o aburrido. Si uno le brinda el corazón, él responderá brindando el suyo

Yet by some stroke of almost providential good fortune, he became wanted.

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal!

Marley era giovane ed esuberante, con la capacità di attenzione di un'alga e l'instabilità della nitroglicerina. Era così eccitabile che qualsiasi interazione lo agitava enormemente, producendo in lui la particolare esuberanza di un espresso triplo.

L'età ci arriva di soppiatto alle spalle, ma in un cane arriva con una rapidità mozzafiato, che induce a riflettere.

Scat Man Doo and his trusty Shit Stick had gone where no man had ever gone before. And none should ever go again.

Children serve as impossible-to-ignore, in-your-face timepieces, marking the relentless march of one's life through what otherwise might seem an infinite sea of minutes, hours, days, and years.

could almost taste the finiteness of life and thus its preciousness. We take it for granted, but it is fragile, precarious, uncertain, able to cease at any instant without notice. I was reminded of what should be obvious but too often is not, that each day, each hour and minute, is worth cherishing.

Marley fez-me pensar no carácter efémero da vida, nas suas alegrias passageiras e oportunidades perdidas. Fez-me lembrar que só temos uma chance de chegar ao ouro, sem repetições.

That's when it happened. So fast, in fact, that we didn't even realize it had happened. All we knew was that one instant we were sitting at a lovely outdoor table toasting the beautiful day, and the next our table was on the move, crashing its way through the sea of other tables, banging into innocent bystanders, and making a horrible, ear-piercing, industrial-grade shriek as it scraped over the concrete pavers.

Infine (sì, di nuovo un'ultima volta) devo ringraziare quel rompiscatole del mio amico a quattro zampe, senza il quale non ci sarebbe questo libro. Sarebbe felice di sapere che il suo debito per tutti i materassi strappati, le pareti sventrate e gli oggetti di valore inghiottiti è stato adesso pienamente saldato.

Quando fu infine sistemata, ci sembrò ovviamente sensato portare a casa un grosso compagno a quattro zampe con unghie raspanti, grandi denti e limitate capacità espressive per iniziare a demolirla di nuovo.

We both rolled our eyes when my old-school mother clucked at us, Enjoy them while you can because they'll be grown up before you know it. Now, even just a few years into it, we were realising she was right. Hers was a well-worn cliché but one we could already see was steeped in truth. The boys were growing up fast, and each week ended another little chapter that could never again be revisited.

I figli sono come orologi che non si possono ignorare; segnano l'inesorabile marcia della vita attraverso quello che altrimenti sembrerebbe un infinito are di minuti, ore, giorni, e anni.

Gli amanti degli animali sono una speciale razza umana, generosa di spirito, piena di empatia, forse un po' incline al sentimentalismo, e con cuori immensi come un cielo senza nuvole.

Nonostante tutte le delusioni e le aspettative disattese, Marley ci aveva fatto un dono, spontaneo e inestimabile. Ci aveva insegnato l'arte dell0amore incondizionato. Come darlo, come accettarlo. Dove c'è quest'amore, gli altri pezzi vanno quasi sempre a posto.

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.