It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.

...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.