Dogs don't use their love like a weapon

"He just needed to get away from everything, and the best way he knew to do that was to go out on the ocean alone in a boat.

Well, Ralph was with him, but dogs, even a dog like Ralph, didn't count. Dogs didn't make demands or pursue agendas ... or use their love like a weapon."

-- William G. Tappley, Gray Ghost, St. Martin's Minotaur, NY, 2007, Page 84