Deborah Willis > Quotes

“It’s like the Garden of Eden, except better than the original. Every plant here is the Tree of Knowledge, and you can eat from it whenever you want.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars

“The problem was so big, so overwhelming. A few consumer choices weren't going to cut it, but what else could she do? Choices were the problem. Humans must make them, and every choice involves loss. Every choice is a death. And we hate death, are terrified of death, will do any depraved thing to avoid even its shadow. We are unwilling to sacrifice. Unable to cooperate. How to fight our own nature? It was over. The end.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars

“She'd be the Type A mom who forces our fetus to listen to Mozart, and has a non-medicalized birth on a paddleboard in the middle of the ocean, and enrolls our kid in gender-neutral sports classes, and encourages him/her/them to become an activist-entrepreneur by age twelve. And I'd balance it all by being the cereal-and-cartoons-on-Saturday-morning dad, the let's-wander-to-the-library-and-take-out-age-inappropriate-books guy, the dude who makes Mommy laugh and ensures that every once in a while she takes a fucking nap.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars

“Simple and inefficient, needing only attention and time but demanding neither, a book is ancient and perfect technology.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars

“If you go out to sell your soul, you never know who’s buying.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars

“What most people don’t understand is that pot isn’t a plant or a drug or a habit. It’s a destination - a place to travel to. A place between waking and dreaming, between living and dying.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars

“He’s slim and pale, with a regal neck only a guillotine could love.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars

“We are unwilling to sacrifice. Unable to cooperate. How to fight our own nature? It was over. The end.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars

“To be bad was to be doomed; to be good was to be saved. And every single action and thought was recorded in God’s ledger. Being a Christian was like being famous - you couldn’t get away with anything.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars

“More gods and great hair. Hindu girls have all the things.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars

“And she and Kev were not going to have children because she did not want her body invaded by alien life-forms.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars