We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.
Gary PaulsenI can't rightly say where deciding to write about the American Revolution came from; I had bits and pieces of information about the war and about the country at that time that I'd collected over the years and, of course, I'm comfortable in the woods, so, finally, it just all feel into place.
Gary PaulsenAnd the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.
Gary PaulsenThings seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.
Gary PaulsenHe did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.
Gary Paulsen