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"Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time."

― Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues.

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"Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic—which was what all magic was—it was rather soothing to have all the same qualities wrapped up in a small, furry, generally attractive bundle that looked more or less the same from day to day and might, if it were in a good mood, sit on your knee and purr. Magic never sat on anybody’s knee and purred."

― Robin McKinley, Spindle's End.

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"I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology."

― P.G. Wodehouse, A Wodehouse Bestiary.

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"Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity."

― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad.

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"For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another."

― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

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"The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, Such as Victor or Jonathan, or George or Bill Bailey - All of them sensible everyday names. There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter, Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames: Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter - But all of them sensible everyday names. But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular, A name that's peculiar, and more dignified, Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride? Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum, Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat, Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum - Names that never belong to more than one cat. But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will guess; The name that no human research can discover - But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name."

― T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

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"Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes."

― H.P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls.

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"Honestly I don't know why i have these parties" "Because of your cat" "That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort"

― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones.

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"Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where—' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. '—so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation. 'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough."

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass.

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"Nimm deine Augen in die Hand und deine Katze aufs Knie. Was du nicht siehst, sieht sie."

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"Die Katze behält ihren freien Willen, auch wenn sie dich liebt, und sie wird nichts für dich tun, was sie für unvernünftig hält."

— Théophile Gautier.

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"Respekt vor Katzen ist der Anfang jeglichen Sinnes für Ästhetik."

— Erasmus Darwin.

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"Túljárni egy macska eszén, aki nem akar befáradni a házba - ez bizony felér egy sakkfeladvánnyal."

— Dominic Courcel.

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"A macska nem ugrál föl rád, nem nyalja összevissza az arcodat, nem szaladgál őrülten körülötted, hisztérikus hangokat kiadva. A macska az ajtóban vár, nagyon finoman a lábadhoz dől, és rezonál."

— Pam Brown.

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"Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?"

— Steven Wright.

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"I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them."

― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina.

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"All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this..."

― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle.