“Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!”

“Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability”

“If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.”

“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.”

“I hated cats. I was a dog lover," Des says with a shrug. "What's the point of a cat? They're not affectionate. But that's because it's not my cat. I mean, your wife wouldn't jump on my lap. That's because she's your wife, not mine. Until you have your own cat, you really don't understand.”

“You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.”