“In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.”

—  Dean Koontz

Source: A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

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