“Very early on, I understood that I secretly and mysteriously belonged to the world of cats.”
Balthus, Vanished Splendors: A Memoir

Art: Cute Nap by Yuliya Podlinnova

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“Cats were weird.”
Stephen King, Pet Sematary

Art: Jolly Scout by Dora Hathazi Mendes

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“Cats are realists”
Hiro Arikawa

Art: Siesta by Dora Hathazi Mendes

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“Feeling the weight of a cat's paws pressing into your shoulders in the middle of the night - not much beats that.”
Hiro Arikawa

Art: Five more minutes by Dora Hathazi Mendes

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“Cats hate us. They hate us so much. But they also need us. They need us more than they hate us.”
Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

Art: Glorious Floof by Dora Hathazi Mendes

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“I like selfpetting kitties.”
Sean McGuire, Two Toes and the Magic Pack: A Story of Wolves and Humans

Art: Grooming time by Louise Howarth

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“When a cat, who is a picture of grace and beauty, suddenly rolls over in a hideous posture, contorts his face and scratches his ear, he is telling you, sir, to go to blazes!”
Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

Art by Michele Angel

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“Yet I wish I had a cat.”
Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

Art: White Love by Dora Hathazi Mendes

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“Who knows where a cat goes?" he said philosophically.”
Isobelle Carmody, Obernewtyn

Art: Pasticcio walking by Acqu Art

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“One cat just leads to another”
Ernest Hemingway

Art: Harvey and Heidi by Doris Hathazi Mendes

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“The domestic cat is a bit of a contradiction. It freely accepts human friendship while never allowing even the most contented life to dim its sense of who it is and what it is capable of.”
Ellen Dugan, The Enchanted Cat: Feline Fascinations, Spells and Magick

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“I've found that he way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character”
P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

Art: Relaxed tuxedo by Charlotte Yealey

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“This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.”
Kerry Greenwood, Raisins and Almonds

Art: Two's Company by Cb Studios

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“The realest of cats love with all of their being...”
Will Advise

Art: Kutsal and Kadife, Birman sisters by Dora Hathazi Mendes

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“A cat chooses its owner, not the other way around.”
Helen Brown, Cleo: How an Uppity Cat Helped Heal a Family

Art by Olde Time Mercantile

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“...staring into thin air at those things only cats can see.”
Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

Art by Margaret Bucklew

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“There is no creature better at delicate rudeness than a cat...”
Elizabeth Peters

Art: Laid back by Lucie Bilodeau

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“Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.”
Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Art: Home at last by Brandy Woods

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“Cats ask plainly for what they want.”
Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations

Art by Kim Jacobs

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