Once bitten, twice shy. Once caring, twice cry.Once beloved, can’t deny—heart 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 cat’s 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.

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.

But Quinn held the fuzzy handcuffs in his hands, looking them over closely, and he smiled. “Oh, hey, did you want to keep these for when your invisible boyfriend returns from his fake vacation?

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

There's something about lonely nights and my lipstick on your face

And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

Everything has an end.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.