Oliver: The True Story of a Stolen Dog and the Humans He Brought Together
Steven J. Carino
Top 10 Best Quotes
“To be human is to endure hardship, and to endure hardship means that we are alive. And being alive is the greatest gift.”
“It isn’t so much what you have but what you believe that defines who you are and how you live.”
“We have to trust in the things that happen as happening for a reason.”
“We became inseparable, bound to each other in ways neither of us fully understood. All we knew for sure was that, as long as we were together, nothing could really hurt us. Together, we would always be okay.”
“The boy who was going to be president was not the man who had nothing.”
“Steven and Oliver. Oliver and Steven. Always together. Take ‘em or leave ‘em.”
“Something was happening. Something bigger than me. My eyes were being opened to a greater truth about the world, an insight into our shared humanity, a close-up look at the extraordinary power of love and empathy.”
“Losing Oliver allowed me to live again.”
“I’m through trying to be whatever person I have been trying to be because, obviously, I’m doing something wrong,” I said to him. “I want you to take over. I’m not giving up. I’m just surrendering to you. I am done trying to fulfill whatever expectations I thought I had to fulfill. I want you to make me into the person I am supposed to be.”
“I’m not married. I have no family of my own. I drive people to airports for a living. And I live with my dog. That’s it. That’s all I have. That’s my life. So whoever took Oliver, they didn’t just take my cell phone or car or computer. They took my whole life. You’re looking at a broken man, And that’s why I’m here. I have love in my heart, and I need your help.”
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