Cat Person Quotes

“What do you want to do now?" he asked her.

"We should probably just kill ourselves," she imagined saying.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“Every so often, over the next day or so, she would find herself in a gray, daydreamy mood, missing something, and she'd realize that it was Robert she missed, not the real Robert but the Robert she'd imagined on the other end of all those text messages during break.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“Margot thought: oh, no. But the thought of what it would take to stop what she had set in motion was overwhelming; it would require an amount of tact and gentleness that she felt was impossible to summon. It wasn't that she was scared he would try to force her to do something against her will but that insisting they stop now, after everything she'd done to push this forward, would make her seem spoiled and capricious, as if she'd ordered something at a restaurant and then, once the food arrived, had changed her mind and sent it back.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“. . . she thought, brightly, This is the worst life decision I have ever made! And she marveled at herself for a while, at the mystery of this person who'd just done this bizarre, inexplicable thing.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“I was a cat person, too. At least, I thought I was. But I couldn’t help wondering if it was possible for an independent, curious cat person to be having a please-love-me, don’t-leave-me, desperate, doggy kind of day”
― Laura Tucker, All the Greys on Greene Street

“I know that cat people get a bad rep, but do I really have it in me to become a dog person?”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: Essays