26 Quotes by Gwen Cooper

This is what happens when the human you love dies. Pieces of you go missing.

There was, however, a real “Honey the cat.” Honey was one of two cats and a parrot living in the building on the day it was demolished, whose owners were not allowed to retrieve them. Neither the cats nor the parrot were ever seen again.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. – WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS.

So I didn’t adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don’t look for the reasons – like bad timing or a negative bank balance – that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.

Rhoda Palmateer, in loving memory. Rhoda’s love saved the day for many hundreds of cats and kittens who otherwise would have languished on the streets or died in shelters.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, Grow, grow.

As long as he’s eating and he’s happy.

I was hoping I’d get to meet the famous cat who started all this ruckus.