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The Cats of Tanglewood Forest (Newford, #18) QUOTES

The Cats of Tanglewood Forest (Newford, #18) QUOTES

1 " Maybe there’s something you can learn from being a cat instead of a little girl.” “What "

― Charles de Lint , The Cats of Tanglewood Forest (Newford, #18)

2 " She hadn't meant to fall asleep, but she was a bit like a cat herself, forever wandering in the woods, chasing after squirrels and rabbits as fast as her skinny legs could take her when the fancy struck, climbing trees like a possum, able to doze in the sun at a moment's notice. And sometimes with no notice at all.

(This text is originally from A Circle of Cats, which was revised and re-adapted by the author for The Cats of Tanglewood Forest) "

― Charles de Lint , The Cats of Tanglewood Forest (Newford, #18)

3 " On a quiet day, when the wind was still, the creek could be heard all the way up to where the old beech stood. Under its branches, cats would come to dream and be dreamed. Black cats and calicos, white cats and marmalade ones, too. Sometimes they exchanged gossip or told stories about L'il Pater, the trickster cat. More often they lay in a drowsy circle around the fat trunk of the ancient beech that spread its boughs above them. Then one of them might tell a story of the old and powerful Father of Cats, and though the sun might still be high and the day warm, they would shiver and groom themselves with nervous tongues.

But they hadn't yet gathered on the day the orphan girl fell asleep among the beech's roots, nestling in the weeds and long grass like the gangly, tousle-haired girl she was.

Her name was Lillian Kindred. "

― Charles de Lint , The Cats of Tanglewood Forest (Newford, #18)