Lucy Ellmann Quotes

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

Unable to make babies, they make bombs instead. Men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

She stood eating soup in her overgrown garden, looking up at stars she could not name.

...the fact that there's a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life...

the fact that we all go on pretending things are fine, hoping everything's a-okay, even though everything is nowhere near okay and we all know it, no matter how many candlelit vigils you hold

And they dare to rule the world! They have made it so ugly. Square houses! Their obsession with straight lines and right angles has ruined the earth! They consider all curves, all subtleties, all softness, all indefinites, female, and they shun them. They have poisoned and denatured everything they touch, and expect us to be grateful.

All along, she had given him the sort of On-Off treatment scientists use to drive rats insane. In humans, this merely leads to a state of high anxiety. She was a mystery to him. A mystery banana.

The whole world organizes itself around the fact that people manage to get their awkward bodies in position to fuck, an achievement honored by toasters, tandems, and tax cuts.

the fact that maybe men think if they just name everything, everything'll be okay, the fact that it's like dogs marking their territory

the fact that I really need a professional declutterer, or at least a book on decluttering from the library, unless they've decluttered the library too and have no books anymore

What is the point of labeling each individual piece of fruit? Buy the fruit, EAT the ad! We've carved a chunk out of the ozone, burned up all the rainforests, soon we won't be able to BREATHE, and all because we had to label each individual piece of fruit.

the fact that a police officer on TV said what used to be a fist fight or road rage is now a shooting, and what used to be a domestic dispute is now a gun rampage, and what used to be a tardy or disruptive student is now a school shooter, the fact that the police aren't much better themselves, the fact that what used to be an arrest or a warning is now a split-second execution

the fact that nothing you do seems innocent anymore

the fact that you'll never know what sort of person you might have been if you'd read different stuff

GENERAL STATEMENT FOR ALL CONCERNED: I do not wish you to be perturbed in any way by my current uncommunicative behaviour. I wish it to be known that I am not pursuing any friendships at the moment because I can not think of anything to say and I suspect I am bad for people. I am too egotistically involved in my own decay to focus on the troubles and triumphs of others ...