“If you don’t mourn a dead cat properly, you’ll never get over it.”
― quote from The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“As I explained earlier, most animals are multilingual when it comes to listening, but reading is beyond us. Reading and writing seem to belong to a special linguistic system that only humans possess.”
― quote from The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“Among cats, when a female chooses a mate, it’s a very clear-cut thing. Not just among cats, but with all animals, the female’s judgement about love is absolute.”
― quote from The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“If you have to consider what’s going to happen after you die, life becomes doubly troublesome.”
― quote from The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“A stray cat’s skill lies in building up a complex web of connections in order to survive on the streets.”
― quote from The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“For heroes unsung For battles untold For books unwritten For secrets unspoken And for a dream of peace never abandoned, never forgotten —Michael Bar-Zohar To”
― Michael Bar-Zohar, quote from Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
“There’s danger in separating yourself from everyone, not wanting anyone to see inside of you where you’re vulnerable. We know the world isn’t safe and perfect like the fairy tales. But if you let it eat away at you, when that one comes along, that woman you know is going to make your world for you, you won’t see her, because you’re too busy hiding. I almost missed my chance with her.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Air Bound
“The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.”
― Catherine of Siena, quote from The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena
“Intimacy is who you wake up thinking about at three in the morning, It’s talking about your hopes and fears in the dark. It’s the one person you give your undivided attention to when ten other people are fighting for it. It’s that person, always in the back of your mind, no matter how distracted you are.”
― Kristen Proby, quote from Forever with Me
“I nodded and grasped the woman by the arm; the cataphracts released her and turned away like silver automata.”
― Gene Wolfe, quote from Shadow and Claw
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The Decay of the Ang...BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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