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" One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic. "

Deanna Raybourn

Chance

Friends

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" My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation. "

" I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. "

" A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately. "

" Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. "

" My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge! "

" We are deeply sorry for the loss of anything - from your luggage to, of course, a loved pet. "

" I love animals. I just don't want to have a pet. That's OK, right? I would take a dog over a cat, at least to interact with you. I feel like cats just stare you down all the time. Cats have, like, bad attitudes. "

" I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me; it felt disloyal. "

" Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you? "

" There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours. "

" I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. "

" I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up. "

" For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life. "

" Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.' "

Walter O'Brien

Parents

Pet

" My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan. "

Karan Johar

Pet

My Life

" I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over. "

" A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats. "

" Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way. "

Caroline Knapp

Pet

Living

" I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date. "

" I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go. "

Ziggy Marley

" I do not believe that I will ever write an adult novel from an animal's point of view unless someday it becomes suddenly appealing to me to make a narrator a mentally ill pet. Never say never. "

" Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. "

" One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different. "

" I am a pet person. My dog actually lives in Georgia now. But I work with animal trainers and pets quite often. I also volunteer at different places like animal shelters. It's good to be around pets. They kind of put things into perspective. They're easygoing, loyal, and they seem to get it, even when humans don't. "

Alyson Stoner

" All I want in life is to pet my dog and cat. After that, all I want to do is post photos of them. Mostly because they're the cutest things ever, but also because I don't have to worry about how ugly I look in the photo. "

" In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad. "

" I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun. "

George Eads

Pet

Fun

" Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. "

Ann Landers

You

Dog

" The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet. "

" A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. "