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.

Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.