If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.


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PETER MARSHALL
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PETER DEFAZIO
My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs...
PETER HIGGS
The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin...
PETER JACKSON
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ...
PETER ACKROYD
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danc...
PETER DINKLAGE
The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu...
PETER CHERNIN
Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK
When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma...
PETER FACINELLI
Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics....
PETER MIDDLEBROOK
Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all...
PETER JACKSON
When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&...
PETER MORTON
Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a '...
PETER NAVARRO
Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of...
PETER DIAMANDIS
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep...
PETER SHAFFER
A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr...
PETER CAPALDI
I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ...
PETER BEARD
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could ...
PETER WRIGHT
There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack...
PETER MULLAN
Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts....
PETER DINKLAGE
It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th...
PETER CRISS
Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t...
PETER GUBER
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...
PETER ABRAHAMS
Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS
The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is...
PETER NAVARRO
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone...
PETER GAY
Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe...
PETER SINGER
Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.
PETER WASTHOLM
Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day...
PETER DIAMANDIS
I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wa...
PETER DIAMANDIS
When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huf...
PETER DIAMANDIS
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow...
PETER USTINOV
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
PETER USTINOV
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can...
PETER KUMP
I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ...
PETER YORK
For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past...
PETER MANDELSON
The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical,...
PETER CAPALDI
Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has no...
PETER OLIVER
About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was...
PETER SCOLARI
Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Departme...
PETER ORSZAG
I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boule...
PETER O'TOOLE
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems o...
PETER USTINOV
I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it'...
PETER LANDESMAN
What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every t...
PETER VIERECK
In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER
Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fa...
PETER MARSHALL
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...
PETER DRUCKER
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine...
PETER THIEL
If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people...
PETER DIAMANDIS
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough...
PETER DIAMANDIS
There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, ho...
PETER NOONE
The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
PETER HOOK
Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV
Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
PETER LEVI
Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of bl...
PETER LANDESMAN
Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey ...
PETER ACKROYD
Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worr...
PETER YORK