W. Bruce Cameron Quotes & Sayings

Fast never saw us go. — W. Bruce Cameron

Some people just don't appreciate having a dog around. It's sad to think there are people like that. I knew Gloria was that way - maybe that's why she could never be truly happy. — W. Bruce Cameron

Yet did you know that every dog alive today has a little wolf DNA? Not just huskies, who often look like wolves, but pugs, corgis, poodles? Chuhuahuas - they sometimes act like they still are wolves. — W. Bruce Cameron

We would drive to Canada, where it would probably be legal for us to get married- it was Canada where they let people do whatever they wanted because it was too cold to bother stopping them. — W. Bruce Cameron

Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort. — W. Bruce Cameron

Funeral notice in the paper." "I still don't know who you're talking about," the other ice fisherman groused. "Dressed funny," the guy at the other table recalled. — W. Bruce Cameron

The job of a good dog was ultimately to be with them, remaining by their sides no matter what course their lives might take. All I could do now was offer him comfort, the assurance that as he left this life he was not alone but rather was tended by the dog who loved him more than anything in the whole world. — W. Bruce Cameron

I was a good dog. I had fulfilled my purpose. Lessons I had learned from being feral had taught me how to escape and how to hide from people when it was necessary, scavenging for food from trash containers. Being with Ethan had taught me love and had taught me my most important purpose, which was taking care of my boy. Jakob and Maya had taught me Find, Show, and, most important of all, how to save people, and it was all of these things, everything I had learned as a dog, that had led me to find Ethan and Hannah and to bring them both together. I understood it now, why I had lived so many times. I had to learn a lot of important skills and lessons, so that when the time came I could rescue Ethan, not from the pond but from the sinking despair of his own life. The — W. Bruce Cameron

I wondered briefly if cats also came back after death, then dismissed the thought because as far as I had ever been able to tell, cats do not have a purpose. — W. Bruce Cameron

I realized that today I truly understood my purpose as Ellie: not just to Find people but to save them. — W. Bruce Cameron

What happened to the Ford?" "God, Gloria made me sell it. Supposedly, I had too much independence - that's the new theory, that I ran off because of independence. Also, she wants me to see a shrink. She's convinced that anyone who wouldn't want to live with her has to be crazy. — W. Bruce Cameron

Humans were capable of so many amazing things, but too often they just sat making words, not doing anything. — W. Bruce Cameron

Dog' is 'God' spelled backward; you know that. That's why you're here, to help the nuns do God's work. — W. Bruce Cameron

You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him. — W. Bruce Cameron

This was, I decided, my purpose as a dog, to comfort the boy whenever he needed me. Sometimes — W. Bruce Cameron

but it also had an odd metallic tang to it that I instantly recognized from when I was Buddy and had a bad taste in my mouth that I couldn't get rid of. The bald man probably had the same taste in his mouth, because it was on his breath. — W. Bruce Cameron

I guess I had never bothered to consider that there might such a thing as a boy, but now that I had found one, I thought it was just about the most wonderful concept in the world. He smelled of mud and sugar and an animal I'd never scented before, and a faint meaty odor clung to his fingers, so I licked them. — W. Bruce Cameron

Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress. — W. Bruce Cameron

That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing. — W. Bruce Cameron

struggled to get down to play with this new friend, but Ethan held me tight. — W. Bruce Cameron

Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever. — W. Bruce Cameron

pg. 301--"Saturday the weather couldn't decide if it was ready to fully entertain winter or if we were still stuck in the fall."
pg.349--"...winter showed up in an angry, punishing fury... — W. Bruce Cameron

I want to know what good is a web search engine that returns 324,909,188 'matches' to my key word. That's like saying, Good news, we've located the product you're looking for. It's on Earth. — W. Bruce Cameron

turned away. It looked as though I lived in a family of dimwits. I — W. Bruce Cameron

As for me: I loyally remained right where I was, remembering the very first I had ever seen the boy and then just now, the very last time-and all the times in between. The deep aching grief I knew I would feel would come soon enough, but at that moment mostly what I felt was peace, secure in the knowledge that by living my life the way I had, everything had come down to this moment.
I had fulfilled my purpose. — W. Bruce Cameron

I will miss you, doodle dog," Ethan said to me. — W. Bruce Cameron

I remembered the boy crying the day they buried Smokey in the yard, and I hoped he wouldn't cry over my death. My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. — W. Bruce Cameron

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

Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth. — W. Bruce Cameron

My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn't want to cause any unhappiness now - in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn't here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly. — W. Bruce Cameron

Failure is not an option if success is just a matter of trying harder — W. Bruce Cameron