“After further introductions were made, we settled in the family room. Yes, the living room would have been nicer, but I wanted comfortable surroundings while plotting to murder one famed historical figure with another one.~Cat”

“There are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear.”

“We have plenty of room for people...in our lives, I mean. Especially the ones who make us be the people we want to be.”

“I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)”

“We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.”

“If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.”