The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts Quotes

“I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

“I’m a gypsy at heart,” Qwilleran said. “Home is where I hang my toothbrush and where the cats have their commode. See you tonight.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

“Amanda raised her glass in a toast. “Here’s a wet one to Saint Iris of the Hummocks!” Then she winced and scowled at Riker, who had kicked her under the table. Polly raised her glass and quoted from Hamlet: “And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

“The fact that Kristi was an attractive young woman had nothing to do with his enthusiastic speculations, he told himself.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

“[…] the caller might say abruptly, 'Whoozis?' In that case I would say grandly, '*Whom* are you calling, sir?' And he would hang up immediately without even an expletive. Of all the four-letter words I know, the speediest turn-off in such circumstances is *whom*.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

“Qwilleran closed the door and turned to Koko. 'How did you react to the noisy oaf?'
Koko laid his ears back. Qwilleran thought, No one has ever called him "kitty." A more appropriate form of address would be "Your Excellency" or "Your Eminence.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

“And Koko's behavior has been abnormal since we moved in. He's always talking to himself and staring into space.'
'He's talking to ghosts,' Roger said with a straight face.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

“That clan always had deep pockets and shorrrt arrrms.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

“relic from an old schoolhouse: a cast-iron base”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

“lye soap; handwoven”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

“never read a book”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

“the balusters”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts