Ursula Vernon Quotes

• If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.

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  Queens, Book, Fate

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• Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really, really important. Work hard. Pay your bills. Try to help others. Always double-check your math if there are explosives involved. If you screwed it up, you need to see it gets fixed. And don't eat anything that talks. If it doesn't fall under one of those categories, just do the best you can.

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  Hurt, Fall, Hard Work

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• I am automatically suspicious of things that wave their symbolism around and do little dances and bludgeon you over the head so that you [Darn] Well Know There's A Symbol Here.

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  Symbolism, Littles, Wave

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• Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods. The little creature lived in a little den, at the bottom of a little ravine, filled with not-at-all little brambles and on the edge of a forest that could only be described as really freakin' huge.

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  Once Upon A Time, Wicked, Littles

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• I don't always burn my bridges, but when I do, I like there to be no survivors.

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  Bridges, Survivor

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• I don't know why people don't paint more warthogs. Warthogs are fantastic. They have the most marvelous faces, like cracked mud with tusks. And the eyelashes! Like many otherwise hideous animals, they have truly spectacular eyelashes. But nooo, it's always the charismatic mammals, like foxes and wolves and tigers. Have you ever smelled a fox? Believe me, the warthog produces a light, airy fragrance suitable for the home or office compared to a fox. Um. What was I saying again?

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  Believe, Home, Animal

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• Érase una vez una chica que descubrió que si tocaba cierta melodía en una flauta de jade, podía invocar a los gnomos de jade, unos peculiares espíritus subterráneos de aspecto inofensivo pero bastante espeluznante. El hecho es que muchos de nosotros tenemos talentos como éste, pero generalmente nunca los descubrimos por falta de oportunidades, ya que uno puede pasarse la vida entera sin tocar una flauta de jade, o descubrir que puede hablar el lenguaje de los perezosos terrestres, o convertir el pastel de frutas en tungsteno sólido cantándole melodías de Sinatra bajo un cuarto de luna.

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  Girl, Moon, Opportunity

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• Sin embargo, si consigo dar con un esquema [para poner nombres], me atengo a él, y por eso mis gatos se llaman como dioses: Loki y Atenea, que son, respectivamente, absolutamente directos y cariñosos, y más tontos que la mierda. He aprendido la lección. A mi próximo gato le pondré "Satanás" o "Marduk" o algo así, y me aseguraré de que sea una bestia amable y cariñosa que trate mi tapicería como un santuario.

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  Cat, Names, Lessons

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• I really wish there had been a way to phrase this as 'A thunder of worms.' Because I like that phrase. That's a phrase with soul. Worm thunder on the horizon, all is right with the cosmos.

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  Soul, Wish, Cosmos

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• Air and Water can just swirl around being swirly, and Fire is just kind of aggressive, but my gut feeling is that Earth needs to work for a living. Earth has stuff to be doing. Earth is busy. Earth is solid and responsible and works hard. Earth is reliable. Earth is the designated driver of the elements and will always come over and feed the cat when you're out of town.

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  Hard Work, Cat, Fire

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• Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a giant drooling hairy thing with pointy teeth. You know how it is.

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  Teeth, Giants, Painting

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• The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense.

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  Libro, Niños, Pensamiento

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• It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You have less to work with. It's like trying to build a house-if you have unlimited resources, you're in much better shape than if you get two bricks, a hammer, and a bent nail.

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  Art, Reality, Two

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