“Megan stepping back let her glance switch from Alma to Isabel and return to Alma. No doubt about it, thought Megan. Created as much alike as any sisters ever had been, their resemblance started wit...”

“Quote taken from Chapter 1:I know what." Isabel reached under the end table, took out the game board, and rattled the Band-Aid box containing the letter tiles. "It's been a week-and-a-half since ou...”

“Quote is taken from Chapter 1:A decade ago when Isabel’s husband Max had died, they’d moved in together and merged their possessions. Neither sister brought any fussy teapots, canaries, sachets, or...”

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”

“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”

“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”

“She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher shed left chilling in the fridge. Two glasses served with a generous slice of pound cake with orange glaze icing sounded twic...”

“Nozy Cat lifted one sleepy eyelid, and his marble blue eye glared at her for interrupting his sacred nap. He wore a yellow collar with little red stars printed on it. His second eyelid also opened,...”

“Youre a nosy sleuth like me because you cant help it, Alma said.”

“A single poemis worth a hundredcozy winter nightskind wordsand healed wounds.”

“Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were gone. That I'd wear my nightgowns all day and read from dawn till dusk.”

“Sheriff Fox was running his fingers through his thin hair. In a few short years, hed look bald as a peeled apple. The Snoop sisters and their sidekick, the towns bag lady no less, had traipsed into...”