One small cat changes coming home to an empty house, to coming home.

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil, but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.