Debbie Urbanski > Quotes

“She writes her mother letters in the margins of her notebook, which is against the rules (manual, p. 22). There is no way to send a letter anymore. Also Dana, for sure, by now, is dead. "Mom," Sen writes. "I hear coyotes at night. Some of the animals have stopped considering me human." It is the last letter to a mother anyone will ever write.”
― Debbie Urbanski, After World

“The reality is that we’re living in a culturally diverse world”
― Debbie Urbanski, Portalmania: Stories

“And if anyone asks her to do something she doesn’t want to do”
― Debbie Urbanski, Portalmania: Stories

“It has always been important to me to know that I’d choose the life I already had. I had hoped my family would say the same in return”
― Debbie Urbanski, Portalmania: Stories

“because they are married and married people sleep naked together in the same bed every night so he can rub whatever parts of her he wants. This is normal behavior.”
― Debbie Urbanski, Portalmania: Stories

“Jobs was an asshole.”
― Debbie Urbanski, Portalmania: Stories

“there is the possibility that he looked away from that portal knowingly. What I mean is”
― Debbie Urbanski, Portalmania: Stories

“Why do you think your husband wants to see you naked?” the chorus women ask in passing on the way from the attic to the tip-top of the pointed roof. They would like Lacey to understand her husband’s urges before they jump. If she can understand her husband’s urges”
― Debbie Urbanski, Portalmania: Stories

“Please know that up until recently she had been very good”
― Debbie Urbanski, Portalmania: Stories

“Family Planning, n.
Determining, through progressive and empathetic conversation, how each member of a family will leave their life, in what order, and when. My family consisted of Alexia. She claimed we had used Family Planning to decide that she would leave her life and I wouldn't. I never agreed to that. She called my memory faulty and opportunistic. You only remember what you want to remember, she told me, and I said yes yes yes, but isn't that the definition of memory?”
― Debbie Urbanski, After World

“Whenever the phrase situational influences is used in the textbook”
― Debbie Urbanski, Portalmania: Stories

“She feels a pressure on her trapezius. He used to lick her. He said it felt every time like he was making love to a virgin”
― Debbie Urbanski, Portalmania: Stories

“She is in menopause”
― Debbie Urbanski, Portalmania: Stories

“Worry is the stupidest emotion.”
― Debbie Urbanski, Portalmania: Stories

“He will always be with you. He’ll forever be a part of you. This sounds like a threat.”
― Debbie Urbanski, Portalmania: Stories