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“A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and ...”
“Cats dont have names, it said.No? said Coraline.No, said the cat. Now, you people have names. Thats because you dont know who you are. We know who we are, so we dont need names.There was something ...”
“Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.”
“Heres a random factoid: I like cats. And heres another: I like red wine.”
“Yet he could not enjoy the walk. In the morning especially a bougainvillaea looks handmade, lawns are always lawns, and it is true indeed that dogs smell fear. Cats don't say.”
“Food was good, company better, and if I had been a cat, I'd have preferred.”
“The cat is the beautiful devil.”
“A meow massages the heart.”
“If I had to drink water like my cat, Id croak over dead in no time. Maybe its like eating rice with chop sticks? Both are absurdly difficult and unfathomable for me. Not that I am into ease (clearl...”
“The Cat and the Moon The cat went here and thereAnd the moon spun round like a top,And the nearest kin of the moon,The creeping cat, looked up.Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,For, wander and w...”
“Misty is the color of rain on a window.”
“The cat is a dilettante in fur.”
“Until one morning, one of the coldest mornings of the year, when I came in with the book cart and found Jean Hollis Clark, a fellow librarian, standing dead still in the middle of the staff room."I...”
“A library after closing is a lonely place. It is heart-poundingly silent, and the rows of shelves create an almost unfathomable number of dark and creepy corners.”
“And then there was the expansive garden that ran the length of the rear of the house- lush with color and fragrances that seemed to burst from every branch and bloom. Whoever had designed it posses...”
“Lady, you have the wrong number. Our cat isn't even in the hospital. He doesn't want pajamas.”
“I'd seriously contemplated a real collar - a sparkly green one - if only because I was sure it would offend his dignity.”
“You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.”
“It was probably my mother's screaming that frightened the cat. It's just a guess. No one knows for sure why a cat fell from a ten-storey building onto my head.”
“Ah, mistress, youre an angel. Sure theres not a drop left? I might have remembered one more person.Up yours, I said rudely with another belch. Its empty. You should tell me the name anyway, after m...”
