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"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."
"A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence."
"One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home."
"Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet."
"In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers."
"If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater."
"Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs."
"An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too."
"Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers."
"We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet."
"Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives."
"Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience."
"A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers."
"When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?"
"Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling."
"A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?"
"Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric."
"Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence."
"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."
"A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan."