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John Longridge Quotes

Six of the best book quotes from John Longridge
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“How extremely unloving and intolerant he had felt so often , waking in the middle of the night to the relentless shoving and pushing of his undesirable and selfish bedfellow.”
Sheila Burnford
author
The Incredible Journey
book
John Longridge
character
selfishness
dogs
take for granted
being intolerant
being woken up
concepts
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“John Longridge turned away, then, and left them, an indistinguishable tangle of boy and dog, in a world of their own making.”
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“The man lay awake for a while, thinking about the days ahead and of the animals, for the sheer misery in the young dog’s eyes haunted him.”
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″‘Tonight,’ he reflected wryly, ‘I’d give him the whole bed! I’d even sleep in the basket myself-if only he would come back!‘”
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“Lying awake in the dark that night, unable to sleep, he thought he would have given anything to feel the heavy thud on the bed that used to announce the old dog’s arrival.”
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″...he and the Hunters spent many hours patiently tracking down evidence which was sometimes so conflicting and confusing that it was useless, and sometimes so coincidental that it was difficult to believe.”

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