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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.”

“In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamentally alien to our being, this even though we all suffer, and frequently. Yet we reject suffering as a basic human truth, while greeting joy as integral to our very substance.”

“Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).”