How to Walk a Puma Quotes

“I answered that I was sure, and he asked me again, and this time I understood his concern. ‘I’m not embarrassed!’ I said, or at least tried to say, before recalling that embarazada means something entirely different to ‘embarrassed’ and that I’d just wailed at the doctor that I wasn’t pregnant, something his medical training had presumably made evident to him.”
― Peter Allison, How to Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America

“Just so you know,’ I explained, remembering my own earlier arrogance, ‘if you’ve ever owned a cat and therefore think you know how to handle a puma, you don’t. It would be like playing with sharks because you once owned a goldfish.”
― Peter Allison, How to Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America

“But after dealing with Roy for a while I just wanted to get through the time I’d signed on for, to prove to myself that I couldn’t be beaten by a girly-faced, chicken-boned, racist cat.”
― Peter Allison, How to Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America

“Who the hell is afraid of a fridge but ties himself to a puma?”
― Peter Allison, How to Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America