Ursula > Ursula's Quotes

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Then she said, with piteous defiance, "If I could love her, the Good Lord could, and he won't be too hard on an old lady who didn't have an easy life.”
― Ruth Park, The Harp in the South

“The announcer, in milky tones, rolled out the commercial; it was all about some sort of washing powder that made laundry days a mere frolic in the backyard”
― Ruth Park, The Harp in the South

“Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.”
― Ann Aguirre, Killbox

“The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had that one mostly right.

I stepped forward, let the door bang closed, and snarled, "Fuck subtle.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“Tell me you don't feel what I feel when I hold you. Tell me you don't tremble when I touch you," he whispered huskily, "and then try to tell me you don't want me to make love to you.”
― Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, So Worthy My Love

“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
― John Waters

“When you are here I will make you laugh every day. I will not be content to see you frown or worry. I will take your burdens and turn them to dust. I will take the sweetness from your smile. It will be mine to take.”
― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Extra (Yarns)

“When you are here I will make you laugh every day. I will not be content to see you frown or worry.”
― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Extra (Yarns)

“When you are here I will make you laugh every day. I will not be content to”
― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Extra (Yarns)

“see you frown or worry. I will take your burdens and turn them to dust.”
― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Extra (Yarns)

“When you are here I will make you laugh every day.”
― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Extra (Yarns)

“Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“As humans, we waste the shit out of our words. It’s sad. We use words like “awesome” and “wonderful” like they’re candy. It was awesome? Really? It inspired awe? It was wonderful? Are you serious? It was full of wonder? You use the word “amazing” to describe a goddamn sandwich at Wendy’s. What’s going to happen on your wedding day, or when your first child is born? How will you describe it? You already wasted “amazing” on a fucking sandwich.”
― Louis C.K.