“There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.”

“I mean, electric shock? Isn’t that a bit... electric shock-y?”

“I looked like a corpse, and not a particularly fresh corpse at that.”

“From his vantage point on the window sill, The Dude cocked a rear leg back over his head and proceeded to lick at his private parts with a thoroughness that would make a lesser man blush. I shook my head at the sight and mumbled, “Show off,” in the animal’s general direction. For a moment the tiny kitten hesitated, leg still extended behind its head, face still over its crotch. It narrowed its eyes at me, let out a displeased sound, then promptly got back to work.I suppose there are worse things than being a cat.”

“Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you.”

“When I look through your eyes, I see a disguise, and in that disguise, I see love, and in that love, you are fabulous.”

“There is a moment after death when things can go one of several ways, when souls can mingle and reunite-or be forever parted. Fate throws the bones, and hearts are mended, or shattered. What tips the balance in one's favor? Is it Mercy, or Grace, or Justice-the names of the three brightest angels? Or is it Love, the name of the One True Being?”