968 Quotes About Cats

  • Author Dorothy L. Sayers
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    How do you do?”“How do you do?” echoed Mr. Ingleby. They gazed at one another with the faint resentment of two cats at their first meeting. Mr. Hankin smiled kindly at them both.

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  • Author Yoon Ha Lee
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    Mikodez had always known that cats were more treacherous than his own people.

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  • Author spitandvinegar
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    The big fat yellow cat comes to wind around Bucky's ankles. It says, “Meow.” It pronounces it very distinctly, like maybe it speaks Cat as a second language and doesn't know how to use contractions.

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  • Author Marjorie M. Liu
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    Do you know what the first poet said about our kind, young Ren? 'Cats are the great mystery, born in that space where shadow meets light ... that borderland of dreams and death, and death and life. No door is closed against us. No secret can defy us. We exist in every world, every universe, every possibility. We cannot be denied, not even by the dead.' We are magnificent, Ren Mormorian. We are fucking glorious.

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  • Author Paula Poundstone
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    I fall short of her standards. She made me buy cat food that hasn't been tested on animals. My cats took one bite of it, spit it out, and yelled, "Did no one test this?

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  • Author Jinty James
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    The next day, Trixie pawed Maddie awake, patting her arm gently.“I’m up,” Maddie groaned, blinking sleep out of her eyes.“Mrrow.” Trixie peered at her, then gave her a soft nose kiss, her whiskers skimming Maddie’s cheeks.“Thanks, Trixie.” The gesture touched Maddie’s heart, and she wondered how she’d managed to live without a pet until Trixie came into her life.

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