Quotes from Gwen Cooper

There was a terrible danger in loving small, fragile things.

As the Talmud says, Customs are more powerful than laws.

just hope I get to see her again someday. She's the only human I've ever loved.

Seriously. Like, insanely adorable. Those little paws, that tiny nose, those great big eyes… And that belly! That glorious, fluffy, mushy little kitty belly! It's enough to drive an otherwise sane and sober adult to helpless, babbling lunacy.

One day you look around and realize everyone in New York is younger than you are.

To fall in love in New York is to walk,

humans tend to blame cats for things that aren't really the cat's fault.

there's one thing that's the stuff of cats' nightmares, it's sudden and total immersion in water.

be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York. After

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

On January 24, 1998, a century-old tenement building still in use and located at 172 Stanton Street was demolished by the City of New York

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani entered the building without a hard hat at approximately eleven AM, but ultimately residents were not allowed to return before demolition commenced eight hours later.

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.

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.

This displacement between then and now created an ever-present sense of unease, like a low-frequency sound she couldn't hear clearly enough to identify, but that was disturbing nonetheless.

signed into law in 1955 as the Limited-Profit Housing Companies Act.

sharp rap at the door, followed by an extremely welcome: "Police!

One day it's been so long since you've talked to someone that it's impossible to say the things you should have said years ago.