Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.

- Pam Houston

I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined ar…

- Pam Houston

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

- Pam Houston

People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of celloph…

- Pam Houston

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

- Pam Houston

I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.

- Pam Houston

Give me a labyrinth to walk and I can usually free my mind.

- Pam Houston

Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

- Pam Houston

There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever st…

- Pam Houston