“Anna would say that she was a cat like Gemma, with nine lives to spend, all nine precious and delicious.”
“A woman hath nine lives like a cat.”
“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”
“There are other advantages," continued the child. "For instance, if one rat were cornered by nine cats, on the average, each cat would be ten percent rat and the rat would be ninety percent cat. If you happened to be a rat, you can see how much nicer it would make things.”
“We spend nine months in a nurturing darkness before we're born, and we aspire to the highest of all places when we die.”
“I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.”