“You look like the vamp who bled the cat.”

“It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.”

“"What's your name," Coraline asked the cat. "Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?"
"Cats don't have names," it said.
"No?" said Coraline.
"No," said the cat. "Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."”

“Dogs like everyone. Cats choose who to like.”

“The vamp in McMann’s stared at me. I guess he didn’t like the Goth look. Most of them don’t; somehow they think I’m making fun of them.
Which I totally am.”

“I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die.
--Natalya Shonski”

“When a cat greets you, he makes a big operation of it, bumping, stropping your legs, buzzing like mischief. But when he leaves, he just walks off and never looks back. Cats are smart.”

“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”

“You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.”

“Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?'

No,' I said.

People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle.”