My Life in Dog Years Quotes

I am—I say this with some pride and not a little wonder—a "dog person." (1.1)

I make no excuses for unabashedly loving them—all of them, even some that have bitten me. I have always had dogs and will have dogs until I die. (1.1)

The last thing I saw as I went under was Cookie's head swinging up from sleeping and her eyes locking on mine as I went beneath the surface. (1.13)

Then the rope tightened. There was a large noose-knot on the end and it tightened and started pulling up and when the knot hit I grabbed and held and the dogs pulled me out of the hole and back up...

In January of 1980 I was running a seventy-five-mile line, trapping beaver. […] I was alone when I made a mistake that nearly killed me. (1.7)

I would have died if not for Cookie. She saw me drop, instantly analyzed the situation, got the team up—she must have jerked them to their feet—got them pulling, and they pulled me out. (1.16-1...

Though I ran sled dogs for close to ten years, did some twenty-two thousand miles with them, this book is not about sled dogs or running them. (1.1)

The Philippines had been ravaged by the war and much of the islands was still in ruins. […] It was impossible to walk anywhere without stepping on empty cartridge cases or seeing some part of an...