Again not love, more like the feelings you would have for a favourite dog (and no, she would have said such a thing to him. Some people, a lot of people, didn’t understand how attached one could be to a dog). ~ Ursula Todd
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
On dogs and love
A Taswegian in Finland 
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