“Trolls have a longstanding animosity for goats--"Who's that trip-tapping across my bridge!?"--and this led me to think that perhaps trolls are related to goats, since it seems a lot more plausible to me that your relatives would make you insane… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
“And now you will ask me about the musicians that played for the jackalope wives. Well, if you can find a place where they’ve… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
“I love boats. Boats are great. You can get all kinds of places and meet all kinds of interesting people, and you never know… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named after gods-Loki and Athena, who are, respectively, absolutely straightforward and affectionate, and dumber than dirt. I learned my lesson. I will name my next cat 'Satan' or 'Marduk' or something, thereby ensuring a kind, gentle beast… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share
“Maps? There are no maps. I go by dark ways, unclean ways. If such a map existed, it would be beyond price. Nameless cults would battle in the low places of the earth for such a price. Dreamers would starve themselves in endless visions seeking its location. Such a map would have to be drawn on the skin of a… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share
“She was a good witch and a decent person, but decent people aren’t always easy to live with.” — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
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… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
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… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
Air and Water can just swirl around being swirly, and Fire is just kind of aggressive, but my gut feeling is that Earth needs… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
“So we have this eyesore on the property. No, it’s not the beagle. I can understand why you’d think that, though.” — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
“The last time Wendell's mother had caught them playing cowboys and Indians, she'd read them a twenty-minute lecture on the history of Native American… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
“The world was hard and fierce, but it also contained tomato sandwiches, and if that didn’t make it a world worth living in, your… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
