I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.
A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.
A woman hath nine lives like a cat.
Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.
Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation.
Think you have nine lives, do you? I saved you once.... don't make me save you again.
I've never doubted that you should be our leader. I've always believed that, ever since Firestar took you to the Skyrock to receive your nine lives. I challenged you, yes, so I could be sure of your conviction that you were doing the right thing. What SkyClan needs more than anything else is a leader who has faith in herself. Because only then could other cats have faith in her, too.
I have no regrets and if I had nine lives I would have gladly given them all up for my country.
Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition of Bladerunner, with the nostalgia of New Orleans. With crisp and beautiful prose, AFTERLIFE blurs the line between the living and the dead to ask life's ultimate questions-even if they take nine lives to solve.
I've lived nine lives . . . And this is the worst.
They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.
In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.
Nine lives added to my one life makes a perfect 10.
or simply:
