“My heart was in a steep place before I knew you would come home.” The heart in the steep place, expressing trouble; the clean-inside heart, expressing joy. Among these people it was always the heart that spoke. Such warm, enfolding thankfulness came to Hal that he dared not trust his voice.” Heart Book:Mountain dog Source: Mountain dog
“The poles were crude copies of his father’s totem pole out there near the point: grizzly bear, owl, wolf, beaver, all signifying descent and brave deeds of old. If you held to the old ways, the figures on a person’s totem pole were strictly his own. They were property as real as canoes and weapons and hunting grounds.” Totems Book:Mountain dog Source: Mountain dog
“Absently Ed’s hand strayed to the head of the dog beside him. “Gold fever,” he grinned. ‘We're due for another epidemic.” ‘The massive dog pushed Ed’s knee with his muzzle as if he, whose ancestors had drawn the sleds of more than one gold-maddened horde, understood the vainness of the quest.” DogsGold Rush Book:Derry’s Partner Source: Derry’s Partner