“Sweet mother Mary, boy, think about what you’re doing! Be cruel or be kind, but don’t be both, because now you’ve made a mess you can’t clean up in a hurry.” — 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 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… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share
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… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share
“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
