- No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
- On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.
- Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?
- I can’t help it when people are frightened,” says Merricat. “I always want to frighten them more.
- I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.
- Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.
- So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.
- All cat stories start with this statement: “My mother, who was the first cat, told me this…
- I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.
- We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.
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