Lilian Jackson Braun · 256 pages
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“Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut?”
“The dance of life should be created from moment to moment with individuality and spontaneity.”
“Cats have many gifts that are denied humans, and yet we tend to rate them by human standards. To understand a cat, you must realize that he has his own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality. A cat’s lack of speech does not make him a lower animal. Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words? They manage very well among themselves, and they patiently try to make their thoughts known to humans. But in order to read a cat, you must be relaxed and receptive.”
“We designed the house to go with her looks.”
“the canvas had disfigured it. Koko squirmed and squealed and made himself”
“He'd changed in the ten years since he'd been gone.He'd grown taller certainly, and his body was thick with muscle, but his white blond hair was now cut close to the skull, and he had tattoos peeking out from both the collar and the cuffs of his white shirt.”
“Remembering backward is the easy thing. If you could remember forward, you could save yourself…”
“You have what we in France call ‘good time teeth,’” she said. “Why on earth would you want to change them?” “Um, because I can floss with the sash to my bathrobe?”
“Killing is nothing to be in awe of, it's like taking a piss, you do it only when you have to.”
“One does not know love until it arrives, and it's arrival will always surprise.”
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