Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.' 'If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said.

Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.

What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells?

I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being a cat are. When all else fails, wash. And I think I could master the thing that cats do, where they stalk away pretending they meant to do whatever it was in the first place; showing their wounded dignity.