The Cat and The City Quotes

“– tsundoku – a word that required a sentence in English: buying books and piling them up on a shelf without reading them.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“He used to say you can judge a society by how it treats its cats.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“But she would always tell herself, Who needs friends, when you have books.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“You can press pause as much as you like, but it won't stop what's going to happen. Time to press start again; to un-pause this game and let it play out to the end.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“Who needs friends, when you have books,”
― nick bradley, The Cat and The City

“Seeing her books reassured her, made her feel calm.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“Japanophiles were people who just loved Japan without asking questions.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“It’s often the ones we love most who do us harm.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“Sometimes I feel like this whole city is one vast organism. It’s like a human being that we’re all part of. But we’re restricted by the roads, by the waterways, by the tunnels, the trains. It’s like our paths are all laid out for us, and there’s no way of deviating from them. That’s what makes that cat different from us.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“he never felt that way about Japanese - even though he didn’t understand it. The fluid monotonic sound of it alone made it a far more beautiful and spiritual language. English, with its heavy stresses and wobbly intonation, was dirty and repugnant to his ears”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“I decided i want to be a manga artist when i grow up. If you want to know why, it's because of you. I know that you hurt a lot inside. An I know that manga makes you happy. If i can make manga, maybe I can help people like you be happy.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“This wave of nostalgia which constantly reminds us that we can never go home again. That those kids sitting on the floor, so young and so happy, are dead and gone now. They’re never coming back.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“Seeing her books reassured her, made her feel calm. She'd read most of them, but there were a many waiting to be read, which gave her a sense of excitement, and conjured up one of her favourite Japanese words - tsundoku - a word that required a sentence in English: buying books and piling them up on a shelf without reading them.”
― Nick Bradley, El gato y la ciudad

“Even if something dramatic or terrible in your life doesn't happen, just the act of growing older is like a massive trauma anyway.”
― Nick Bradley, El gato y la ciudad

“I can't stand that shit - people talking about things they think they should talk about, so as not to be socially awkward.”
― Nick Bradley, El gato y la ciudad

“For a cat is just a cat, and cannot change its nature.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“Because what is fate, but that moment when you’re playing the computer on the hardest difficulty setting, you’ve run out of life force and you make that one mistake. It’s those excruciating moments that pass by like an eternity before that final hit comes. You know you’ve fucked up, and there’s no way of going back. You can press pause as much as you like, but it won’t stop what’s going to happen.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“Like, even if something dramatic or terrible in your life doesn’t happen, just the act of growing older is like a massive trauma anyway.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“You know, it was once an honourable thing to get a tattoo in the old days – it was the mark of a fireman. The public loved and respected firemen – not like these crude gangsters who show off their tattoos these days.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“This wave of nostalgia which constantly reminds us that we can never go home again.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“a person. Just like her. Just like everyone. Lost and alone”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“the buildings of the city blossoming and withering like flowers from the swamps of Edo”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“felt like Japanese had always stifled her true feelings”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“I can hear the pleasant cracking sound of the cubes fracturing, breaking apart like bone”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“I am at war - at war with the ants”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“then the train company will charge the family of the deceased. It’s supposed to stop the jumpers from disrupting the trains - Tokyo doesn’t appreciate being put behind schedule”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“he wanted so much, but asked for nothing. Just pretended he was respectable. Pretended as if he was never gripped by animalistic savagery”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“He had an anxious smile on his face.
And he was clutching a letter in his hand.”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City

“There was something it was searching for - some kind of memory of a previous life - a scent, an image. Was it the purple-headed man, or something else?”
― nick bradley, The Cat and The City

“whatever happened to the nice old guy with the purple bandana?”
― Nick Bradley, The Cat and The City