Shirley Rousseau Murphy Quotes

You prepare as best you can for the bad times- then live every moment with joy.

~ Shirley Rousseau Murphy

... life wasn't full of problems, it was rich with decisions.

~ Shirley Rousseau Murphy

[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

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

I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.

~ Shirley Rousseau Murphy