"Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?"

-- Laini Taylor

#Wall Quotes #Cat Quotes #Expression Quotes

“I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.”
“When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.”
“dogs and angels are not very far apart”
“ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter....”
“There will be no Palestinian state”
“The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.”
“[On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch.”
“Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.”

Source : Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.107, Paulist Press

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