Top 100 Ursula Quotes
#1. There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
Rachel Cusk
#2. but he killed the best Disney villain of all time, the drag queen that is Ursula. Unforgivable. RIP. 4.
Tyler Oakley
#3. It's funny, isn't it," Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.
Kate Atkinson
#4. My parents think the longer the name, the more powerful the sorcerer, so they named me Cassandra Morgan Ursula Margaret Scot. You can call me Cassie.
Christine Amsden
#5. She always brought something when she came on Fridays, and this time it had been a book. A Wizard of Earthsea, written by someone called Ursula K. Le Guin, and already after the first few pages I knew that this was an absolutely fantastic book.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#6. She opened her arms to the black bat and they flew to each other, embracing in the air like long-lost souls. This is love, Ursula thought. And the practice of it makes it perfect.
Kate Atkinson
#7. And his mother, Ursula, whom he called Fancy,
Katy Regnery
#8. They all chose Indian names for themselves. Teddy was Little Fox ("Naturally," Ursula said). Nancy was Little Wolf ("Honiahaka" in Cheyenne, Mrs. Shawcross said. She had a book she referred to). Mrs. Shawcross herself was Great White Eagle ("Oh, for heaven's sake," Sylvie said, "talk about hubris").
Kate Atkinson
#9. Oh, how he missed his sister. Out of everyone, the legions of the dead, the numberless infinities of souls who had gone before, it was the loss of Ursula that had left him with the sorest heart.
Kate Atkinson
#10. Have I interrupted a conversation?' she asked.
'No, only a complete silence,' said Birkin.
'Oh,' said Ursula, vaguely, absent.
D.H. Lawrence
#11. How charming. The king and his little princess knocking on my covens door." Ursula sighed dramatically. "What do you insolent merfolks want with me now? I swear I haven't eaten any of your children."
-Ursula
Khalia Hades
#13. Ursula found herself dwelling on Hugh's death, his absence more than his death.
Kate Atkinson
#14. Ursula wondered if it was not preferable to lie down once and for all in her grave and let them throw the earth over her, and she asked God, without fear, if He really believe that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles and mortifications.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#15. I did not want to die. More than that, I did not want to die as Ursula Monkton had died, beneath the rending talons and beaks of things that may not even have had legs or faces.
Neil Gaiman
#16. Sweet sixteen," Hugh said, kissing her affectionately. "Happy birthday, little bear. Your future's all ahead of you." Ursula still harbored the feeling that some of her future was also behind her but she had learned not to voice such things.
Kate Atkinson
#17. Running her fingers on the scales, she sighs. "I wonder what its like to be a human?"
"Why won't you just go and find out?" the question startled her. She whirled around to come face to face with her evil aunt; Ursula.
Khalia Hades
#18. I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.
Sarah Zettel
#19. Ursula, we have to talk ... ' he said, almost blurting. He couldn't believe he was in the "we have to talk" position. It was so unnerving. 'I have to ask you ... Let's be each other's emergency contact numbers.' This was his first concession towards commitment.
Sharon Weil
#20. We have still not had a death. A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground." he said.
"If I have to die for the rest of you to stay here, I will die" replied Ursula with a soft firmness.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#21. He noticed that Ursula's ox-eye daisies, wrapped in damp newspaper, were drooping, almost dead. Nothing could be kept, he thought, everything ran through one's fingers like sand or water. Or time. Perhaps nothing should be kept.
Kate Atkinson
#22. Ursula Nordstrom was famous for finding artists in unlikely places. Maurice Sendak was a window designer, and she just came across one of his windows. Everyone was looking to find a talent.
Peter Sis
#23. I want to be Ursula in 'The Little Mermaid.'
Lily James
#24. Her absorption was strange, almost rhapsodic. Both Birkin and Ursula were suspended. The little red pistillate flowers had some strange, almost mystic-passionate attraction for her.
D.H. Lawrence
#26. I have a bad habit of dropping verbal pellets to get a reaction, like Ursula LeGuin's "A novelist's business is lying" (that particular one got a lot of attention on Facebook), or, "Why is it that Christians hate the word 'sex'?
Chila Woychik
#27. We cannot turn away," Miss Woolf told her, "we must get on with our job and we must bear witness." What did that mean, Ursula wondered. "It means," Miss Woolf said, "that we must remember these people when we are safely in the future."
"And if we are killed?"
"Then others must remember us.
Kate Atkinson
#28. Ursula is something I will never feel again: she is Melancholy, cut into the soul and flesh.
Luther Blissett
#29. How come you girls want to be dating?.. First you fall in love, then you start dating, then you fall out of love, and then you split up again.
Pierre Anthon - to the author and Ursula-Marie
Janne Teller
#30. Father Nicanor was against a religious ceremony and burial in consecrated ground.
Ursula stood up to him. In a way that neither you nor I can understand, that man was a saint,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#31. When you unlock your pleasure, you unlock your power. And that can change anything ... -Sheerah, Donny and Ursula Save the World.
Sharon Weil
#32. Really! But weren't you fearfully tempted?'
'In the abstract but not in the concrete,' said Ursula. 'When it comes to the point, one isn't even tempted - oh, if I were tempted, I'd marry like a shot. I'm only tempted NOT to.' The faces of both sisters suddenly lit up with amusement.
D.H. Lawrence
#33. Lucian. She's not normal. She's got the sex drive of Ursula. I'm so ashamed to say I've faked illnesses and gone to the doctor just to have a doctor's excuse! ~Steve~
Lucian Bane
#34. And with trembling, excited hands she put the coveted stockings under Ursula's pillow.
'One gets the greatest joy of all out of really lovely stockings,' said Ursula.
'One does,' replied Gudrun; 'the greatest joy of all.
D.H. Lawrence
#35. I'm always so glad,' Sylvie murmured, 'that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.'
'You're very good at being yourself,' Ursula said, aware that it didn't necessarily sound like a compliment.
'Well, I've had years of practice.
Kate Atkinson
#36. Jose Arcadio Buendia took his wife's words literally. He looked out the window and saw the barefoot children in the sunny garden and he had the impression that only at that instant had they begun to exist, conceived by Ursula's spell.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#37. Don't you wonder sometimes,' Ursula said. 'If just one small thing had been changed, in the past, I mean. If Hitler had died at birth, or if someone had kidnapped him as a baby and brought him up in
I don't know, say, a Quaker household
surely things would be different.
Kate Atkinson
#38. I had an idea of him,' Ursula said, 'but the idea wasn't him. Perhaps I wanted to fall in love.
Kate Atkinson
#39. How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?
Kate Atkinson
#40. I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed.
Kate Atkinson
#42. In the end we all arrive at the same place. I hardly see that it matters how we get there. It seemed to Ursula that how you got there was the whole point.
Kate Atkinson
#43. a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly. Ursula
Kate Atkinson
#45. Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn't even begin to solve.
Kate Atkinson
#46. I never thought I was capable of writing a whole book until Ursula K. Le Guin, with whom I worked briefly in publishing, said, 'you already wrote one (referencing a screenplay), you just need to add the details.
E.L. Sayers
#47. Ursula's heart tripped and skipped and flipped at the sight of him. The very object of her affection! The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an "accidental" meeting with Benjamin Cole. And here he was! What luck.
Kate Atkinson
#48. How calm the house was. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. "One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs," she said to Ursula.
Kate Atkinson
#49. Ursula missed the sound of church bells. There were so many simple things she had taken for granted before the war. She wished that she could go back and appreciate them properly.
Kate Atkinson
#50. He was born a politician.
No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.
Kate Atkinson
#51. We're just cogs in a machine really, aren't we?" Miss Fawcett said to her and Ursula said, "But remember, without the cog there is no machine.
Kate Atkinson
#52. Strut' said Ursula. 'One wants to strut, to be a swan among geese
D.H. Lawrence
#53. Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#54. Ursula tried to remember what her own last words to her father had been. A nonchalant 'See you later,' she concluded. The final irony. 'We never know when it will be the last time,' she said ...
Kate Atkinson
#55. The people are all ghouls, and everything is ghostly. Everything is a ghoulish replica of the real world, a replica, a ghoul, all soiled, everything sordid. It's like being mad, Ursula.
Anonymous
#56. Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.
D.H. Lawrence
#57. Peace is not the absence of war - peace is the absence of fear.
Ursula Franklin
#59. An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.
Ursula Parrott
#60. The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#62. Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#63. For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#65. Crafty writers ... don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build the story with.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#66. I hope you'll understand that I am not quoting those great words lightly. I do mean it. Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#67. Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.
Ursula Parrott
#68. I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#69. But when we crave power over life - endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality - then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#70. I learned that the story has no beginning, and no story has an end. That the story is all muddle, all middle. That the story is never true, but that the lie is indeed a child of silence. By
Ursula K. Le Guin
#71. The trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#72. Oh dear God, no, stop!"
Fumblefoot gave her a reproachful look. Stop what?
I have broken into an enchanted manor house and my pony has crapped on the floor. Oh God.
-Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher
#73. The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#74. Anyhow they're always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#75. In innocence there is no strength against evil [ ... ] but there is strength in it for good.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#77. What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#80. There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#82. It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#85. A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#86. To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#88. You can't change anything from the outside in. Standing apart, looking down, talking the overview, you see pattern. What's wrong, what's missing. You want to fix it. But you can't patch it. You have to be in it, weaving it. You have to be part of the weaving.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#89. There are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#91. Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#92. 'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better, I think; drips off one's teeth like sugar-syrup.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
#94. 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
#95. And that's how Snuggles the hamster learned that yes, things COULD always get worse.
Ursula Vernon
#96. Oh Lavinia, Lavinia, you are worth ten Camillas. And I never saw it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#97. I've been looking only at what's to be done next and forgetting why we're doing it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#98. If there are frontiers between the civilised and the barbaric, between the meaningful and the unmeaning, they are not lines on a map nor are they regions of the earth. They are boundaries of the mind alone.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#99. I hate the bigotry you believe in. But I'll try not to hate you."
"Why?" he asked. His voice was cold, as she remembered it.
"Hate eats the hater," she quoted from a familiar text of the Telling.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#100. He saw time turn back upon itself, a river flowing upward to the spring. He held the contemporaneity of two moments in his left and right hands; as he moved them apart he smiled to see the moments separate like dividing soap bubbles.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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