Shirley Rousseau Murphy Quotes

I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Sometimes she could swear that she saw, in Joe Grey's eyes, a judgment far too perceptive, a watchfulness too aware and intense for any cat.Charlie didn't understand what it was about those two [cats]. Both had a presence that set them apart from other felines.Maybe she just knew them better. Maybe all cats had that quality of awareness, when you knew them.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

[At the scene of a murder]The cats' bloodthirst was normal; it was the way God had made them. They were hunters, they killed for food and to train their young--well maybe sometimes for sport. But this violent act by some unknown human had nothing to do with hunting--for a human to brutally maim one of the own kind out of rage or sadism or greed was, to Joe and Dulcie (the cats), a shocking degradation of the human condition. To imagine that vicious abandon in a human deeply distressed Dulcie; she did not like thinking about humans that way.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

... life wasn't full of problems, it was rich with decisions.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

You prepare as best you can for the bad times- then live every moment with joy.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy