Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes

You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.

A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.

No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

There is no country that may … compare with ours in number, excellency, and diversity of dogs.

My dad never liked labels, and neither do I.

Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is you want to be and do whatever it is you want to do, and nobody's really going to ask you a lot of questions about it.

I'm a child of the Earth, postcode unknown.

The wilderness rescued me. I have been shaped by my experiences in the great outdoors. Feeling comfortable in the wild gave me the confidence to be who I am, not who others want me to be.

A miniature poodle is not not a dog just because it's miniature.

I have 3 pugs.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.

All good things are wild and free.

I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.

Who are you? Answer; you are who you are in this given moment. Label-less. Limitless. Remember that from this day forward.

I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean. A dog barks; a child cries; the day sinks and becomes night. You can never scare me. No human being will be able to scare me ever again. I have a prayer that I repeat to myself in absolute stillness: May a wind come to stir up the ocean and the stifling twilight. May a bird come from water out there and explode the silence with its call.