High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

Everything truly important is washable.

Downstream is always someone else's up.

They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.

It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating things like mice or sparrows or special TV programs that we can't see.

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.