Chris Behrsin > Quotes

“I glanced over my shoulder at Aleam. “Yes, you humans have a habit of cutting off our body parts.” The number of times they’d trimmed my claws, and there was something else their ‘vet’ had done to me when I was younger too – I won’t go into that one.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons

“The first was this one, the second the Faerie Realm, the third the Ghost Realm, and the fourth the Earth I knew so well and longed to return to. The fifth and the sixth dimensions were more mysterious, as no magician – not even Astravar – had learned to open them yet, and so no one knew what lived within them.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Meddling with Magic

“If I ever got home, I would tell the Savannah Cats that the worst deaths didn’t happen underneath the belly of the hippopotamus, as they had claimed. Instead, they happen at the bottom of a pool of yeast extract. A bottomless pit of the stuff that shows no remorse, even to vegetarians.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Saving the Kingdom

“The guard captain moved me to the side a little so he could look at Rine. “Initiate, did the chef give you the wrong kind of mushrooms today?” “This cat talks,”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons

“It was ridiculous, I know. A great beast like me – a Bengal – not being able to hunt for himself. But I had to face the facts. I was domesticated, not bred to live in such a wild world.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons

“Now he was getting philosophical, and I knew exactly what he was getting at. Life crumbling to ash and returning to the soil and feeding the plants and all that stuff, creating a circle. It wasn’t just humans who wondered what happened to us after death. It didn’t matter anyway, because once I’d fulfilled my destiny, I was going to cat heaven where I would get fed as much food as I wanted.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Meddling with Magic

“Visions of the future often use symbolism,” Aleam said. “It fills them with rich meaning, and multiple interpretations.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Saving the Kingdom

“I can’t cross my legs like you can,” I said. “And I can’t sit for that long without sleeping or needing to groom myself.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Saving the Kingdom

“At the same time, I had a metallic taste upon my tongue – a taste of raw meat and of being as wild as wild comes.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Meddling with Magic

“It wasn’t my fault that I, as a cat, needed a lot more sleep than they did.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Saving the Kingdom

“wasps buzzed around the wispy stalks. It was the time of year when it’s never wise to go near such insects, because they are drunk on the fruit and easily angered.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Travelling Through Portals

“verdigris”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Travelling Through Portals

“Why do you feel you deserve anything? Why can’t you just live? Why can’t you just be the creature that you’re meant to be?”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Travelling Through Portals

“the giant charged forward, sending out a whiff of testosterone behind him.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Meddling with Magic

“Simply let your worries drift by and focus only on what you can control.”
― Chris Behrsin, Dragonseer

“Cats are made to stay on their feet, not to be flung around like a hamster that had just fallen unconscious on its wheel.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons

“Death was the greatest threat to my plans of retirement.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Saving the Kingdom

“It’s a pleasure to make the acquaintance of such a fascinating creature.” “The pleasure is all mine to be so fascinating,”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons

“I woke up from my trance feeling strong, satisfied, a powerful beast of the wild. My ancestors, at that moment, must have stirred in their graves.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons

“Visions of the future often use symbolism,” Aleam said. “It fills them with rich meaning, and multiple interpretations. This is how soothsayers have always been able to make a living.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Saving the Kingdom

“We’re all on a path of either growth or decay, and your actions now will determine how you will grow.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Meddling with Magic

“It’s easier to beat yourself up about a bad experience than to learn from it. But that doesn’t mean it’s the best thing to do.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Meddling with Magic

“Whiskers, knowing my luck, I might come face to face with a hippopotamus. It would tear me apart with its razor-sharp buck teeth before I even saw it.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons

“From here, I could also see there was far too much stuff on the desks, and some of it belonged on the floor. I turned my head from desk to desk, wondering which bit of paper or trinket I should knock off first.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Meddling with Magic

“Once upon a time, the dragons used to mock her because these spikes prevented her from bearing a saddle. Now, with her being bonded to the famous descendant of the great Asian leopard cat, they apparently all respected her.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Saving the Kingdom

“It was a really weird place to be in, this thing that humans called limbo. Cats were not meant to feel the frustration it caused. I mean, when we saw a mouse, or a butterfly, or something worth hunting, we would hunt it when it was there, and then forget about it if it fled out of sight.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Saving the Kingdom

“Even being whiskers knows how many miles up in the sky, it still looked bigger than me.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons

“When I returned her gaze, she blinked contentedly. I could hear her purring from here, and I could also smell fish on her breath.”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Saving the Kingdom

“What is the Aurorest Forest, anyway?” “It’s a forest. You know, a natural habitat with trees arranged close together?”
― Chris Behrsin, A Cat's Guide to Saving the Kingdom