Cat

“I have always mistrusted the phrase "standing on the shoulders of giants," because although I respect and pay homage to the brilliance and resilience of my ancestors, I'm fairly certain that they were not giants, but as powerful and as vulnerable as I am.”
― Parker T. Hurley

“All that rubbish about souls is simply not true, that you can love a soul independent of the shape it comes in. Our brains are made so that we can only love a cat as a cat and not as a bird or an elephant. If we want to love a cat, we want to see a cat, touch its fur, hear it purr, and get scratched if we get our petting wrong. We don't want to hear it bark, and if the cat started growing feathers, we would kill, study, and finally, exhibit it as a monster.”
― Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

“I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.”
― Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station

“Home was a ship that was at the bottom of the sea, where my mother's bones lay sleeping.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable