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Cat in the Dark (Joe Grey, #4) QUOTES

Cat in the Dark (Joe Grey, #4) QUOTES

1 " [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 , Cat in the Dark (Joe Grey, #4)

2 " 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 , Cat in the Dark (Joe Grey, #4)