Ernestina

“The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

“Fay cast a strartled glance at the clock, and sprang up. "Heavens, it's past four! I must fly or Arthur will have a fit. He can't bear unpunctuality. Are you ready?"
"I'm ready," said Dinah, "but I shall dawdle for ten minutes for the good of Arthur's soul.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Unfinished Clue

“there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know”
― Hala Alyan, The Twenty-Ninth Year

“Because you were foolish enough to love one place,
now you are homeless, an orphan
in succession of shelters.”
― Louise Glück, Poems, 1962-2012