119 Quotes by Julia Glass

There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can’t even feel have pulled you off course.

When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they’re not people.

People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.

She loved the dogs as you’re supposed to love dogs: consistently.

We’re all alive the day before we die.

My tastes, like my bones, fossilized decades ago. Reach a certain age and you are obliged to become an anthropologist. It’s the only way to ignore that the rest of the world regards you as an artifact, that your culture has faded beyond the horizon, leaving you adrift on your tiny, solitary life raft.

Ready how? Who’s ever ready for anything important?

When it comes to love, dogs make pretty steep competition for us people. And rightly so.

Rage cools fast without an accessible target.