“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.”
“Get a grip. You're pricklier than a feral cat," he said, sitting up."Too bad for you, I'm not in heat," I said, calming down.”
“If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.”
“But in real life, the ideal Parisian woman is calm, discreet, a bit remote, and extremely decisive.”
“She gave in to a hankering for a cup of tea even though she knew that the idea of a cup of tea-sitting still, calmly sipping-was more appealing than actually sitting still and trying to calmly sip.”
“Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.”