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Sometimes, people will just never love dogs.

I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are millions of them needing homes. But there is no single time frame to do it in because grieving is an intensely personal experience.

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.'

If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life.

I cannot believe how much I love my kid. It's a beautiful thing.

I feel it in my bones that if I had a kid, I would not either continue to write or have written the book I have done. So it's just me and the dog. I've always gotten along better with animals than I have with children, anyway.

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.