13 Quotes by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

You prepare as best you can for the bad times- then live every moment with joy.

Sometimes she could swear that she saw, in Joe Grey's eyes, a judgment far too perceptive, a watchfulness too aware and intense for any cat.Charlie didn't understand what it was about those two [cats]. Both had a presence that set them apart from other felines.Maybe she just knew them better. Maybe all cats had that quality of awareness, when you knew them.

... life wasn't full of problems, it was rich with decisions.

I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.

I have continued to come here for that kind of aloneness, so very different from being lonely with someone.

We will get you a dress with magic, just as in the stories," he said seriously."But they're only stories, Gillie, Magic isn’t real." "We will make it real.

If it occurred to Thursey that there was really no relationship between marrying your own true love and having a fortune showered upon you, she didn't bother about that. In a story you might as well have both, it was make-believe anyway.But if I had to choose, she thought. If I had to choose . . . she stared at her ragged dress hanging from its hook, and her ragged mended sandals on the shelf, then put the books away. How would I ever have such a choice, except in a made-up story?

Crystal shoesAnd a mare to ride on,A milk white mare,And a silver woven in my hair.

The castle always looks so mysterious," she said, awed. "Is it wonderful, living there?""It isn’t so mysterious when you're there. I'd rather look at it from the hills. It's just—full of people, at least the servants' parts are, crowded and ordinary. Things should be mysterious, but there's nothing mysterious in the palace.""Should things be mysterious?""There's mystery in the hills and in the wind on the grass. And in the stories you like. Isn't life mysterious?