“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.”

“For most secrets are kept by these: the darkness, the silence, and the cat.”

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

“To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are.”

“Ill rid the world of each one of you, he whispered. Every single one”

“Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

“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...”