Colette is Kiki’s owner in “Pigeons, a Pony, the Tomcat and I.” She’s based off of a real-life French writer and never appears in person in the story. Since Colette is such a dedicated writer, Kiki is the perfect companion for her. Kiki doesn’t demand too much of her owner, and Colette has the freedom to write. Indeed, Colette tells Kiki at one point that she’s a writer first, and everything else second. But despite this, Colette has a rich romantic life. Kiki mentions that Colette has already divorced one man and recently broke off a relationship with Missy. Now she’s married to Henri, a sergeant in World War I, and recently had a baby with him. Kiki fears that with her new life and with the pressures of World War I, Colette won’t have room in her life for a cat anymore.
Colette Quotes in Only the Animals
The Only the Animals quotes below are all either spoken by Colette or refer to Colette. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Pigeons, a Pony, the Tomcat and I: Soul of Cat
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But this late autumn at the front is unlike any I have witnessed. Without the changing palette of the trees to signal the shift towards winter (the leaves have been exploded off), and the songbirds mostly gone quiet, it becomes difficult to know where I am, in what season, in which century.
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Colette Quotes in Only the Animals
The Only the Animals quotes below are all either spoken by Colette or refer to Colette. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Pigeons, a Pony, the Tomcat and I: Soul of Cat
Quotes
But this late autumn at the front is unlike any I have witnessed. Without the changing palette of the trees to signal the shift towards winter (the leaves have been exploded off), and the songbirds mostly gone quiet, it becomes difficult to know where I am, in what season, in which century.
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