“Once bitten, twice shy. Once caring, twice cry.Once beloved, cant denyheart broken, twice die.”

“Zookeeper foible #1: Tendency to not equate fur and scale with fracture and scar.”

“Better to honor the pinch of fear than regret the punch of fang.”

“A cats secrets run so deep that even the cat itself is often unaware. Their mysteries are as natural as whiskers.”

“The cat is beauty and the beast, a baffling blend, a wicked feast.For all who dream of varied light, the cat holds both the dark and bright.”

“Once bitten, twice shy. Once caring, twice cry.Once beloved, can’t deny—heart broken, twice die.”

“Crap.It's all crap.Living is crap.Life has no meaning.None. Nowhere to be found.Crap.Why doesn't anybody realize this?”

“...cursing my heels and debating whether it was faster to stop and take them off--damn ankle straps!--or keep running with the potential neck breakers. Wouldnt that make a charming epitaph? Here li...”

“Charlie whistled "Amazing Grace" as he drove. It was all I could do not to whip my head around and snap, Are you kidding me? Couldn't he pick something more appropriate, like "Shout at the Devil" o...”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”