“I saw them standing there pretending to be just friends, when all the time in the world could not pry them apart. ”

“I raged across the field, killing all before me. They ran when they saw me coming, and I chased them down, and killed them before they could take someone else's friend away from them.”

“Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.”

“...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.”

“Sometimes she could swear that she saw, in Joe Grey's eyes, a judgment far too perceptive, a watchfulness too aware and intense for any cat.Charlie didn't understand what it was about those two [cats]. Both had a presence that set them apart from other felines.Maybe she just knew them better. Maybe all cats had that quality of awareness, when you knew them.”

“This was weird. The thing that could have driven two friends instantly apart was actually drawing them closer together.”