Waltzing the Cat Quotes

“It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat

“Do you write novels?" I said.

"Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat

“For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God."

"It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor."

"Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat

“The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat

“Like sometimes when you go to a movie and you get so lost in the story that when you’re walking out of the theater you can’t remember anything at all about your own life.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat

“Find yourself a place in the universe,' she said, 'a place where the dirt feels like goodness under your feet. Take the right picture and a man will walk into it. If you can bear him even a little, then for a while let him stay.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat

“If a situation requires swearing to God it is — by definition — extreme.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat

“People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat

“A photograph tells the story of two lives simultaneously, the one in front of the camera as well as the one behind.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat

“You got some synchronicity happening in your life right now?”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat

“Intuition is nothing more than the most likely junction of the thing called will and the thing called chance.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat

“In the beginning, Renato had said, all of the world was America.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat