“...she wore weird baggy clothes and seemed like the sort of person who might tesser in some dark and stormy night.” — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“The house felt strange. Altered. Like someone had come in during the day and shrunk all the furniture just a tiny bit.” — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“Hazel shrugged. She heard Bobby’s voice in her head and wondered why it was she who was not allowed to hurt anyone.” — Anne Ursu Heart Copy Share Image
He squeezed Steve's shoulder possessively. "Oh, Zero. He is not you, I must admit. He does not have your bravery, your nobility,… — Anne Ursu Bravery Copy Share Image
“It turned out she did not need the compass. It was easy to head in the other direction from the lair of… — Anne Ursu Heart Copy Share Image
“You see," the lord explained, "everyone else has them. You wouldn't want your child to be the only one who had flaws.… — Anne Ursu Children Copy Share Image
“This is what happens on journeys—the things you find are not necessarily the things you had gone looking for.” — Anne Ursu Journey Copy Share Image
“Jack hesitated still, and Hazel wanted to say something comforting, give him some bright plastic flowers of words, but Jack would see… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“Teachers loved to say people had potential; that's what teachers did to keep themselves from getting canned. What were they supposed to… — Anne Ursu Education Copy Share Image
“They were princesses once, charged with saving the kingdom from a dragon, and whoever could defeat it would be queen. Daisy used… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“Hazel understood. Being grown up meant doing what grown-ups wanted you to do. it meant sacrificing your imagination for rules. It meant… — Anne Ursu Adolescence Copy Share Image
“She saw signs of another village in the distance—she smelled smoke and saw the faint glow of something like civilization. But there… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“She did not like seeing her loved ones like this, bent over with sorrow; everything in her wanted to cry out, to… — Anne Ursu Grief Copy Share Image
A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and… — Anne Ursu Best friend Copy Share Image
“Now, Hazel was not stupid. She knew that just because you see a piece of cake and a sign that says EAT… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“Somebody sniggered. From Somewhere int he back of the room someone else sneered, "Yeah, Hazel ," which was not the greatest insult… — Anne Ursu Comedy Copy Share Image
“He wanted to leave his mom and her unseeing eyes. He was the invisible boy looking for the place where no one… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“Something stirred inside her, some urge to plunge into the new white world and see what it had to offer. It was… — Anne Ursu Heart Copy Share Image
“You can’t just kill a swan and wrap yourself in its skin, you know. It takes something from you. In her case… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
Fiercely original and uncommonly lovely, The Witch's Boy is equal parts enchanting and haunting. Kelly Barnhill is master of truly potent and… — Anne Ursu Boys Copy Share Image
“ It’s all going to be okay. She would like to hear that now, even if it was a lie. Because some… — Anne Ursu Lies Copy Share Image
It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric… — Anne Ursu Architecture Copy Share Image
People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“Charlotte sighed inwardly. She knew her mother was serious when she started referring to shellfish. What did that mean, anyway? What's so… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that… — Anne Ursu Apples Copy Share Image
“Hazel should have done something—left a note, pretended she was going to go visit Jack’s aunt Bernice. Something. She was so busy… — Anne Ursu Mother Copy Share Image
But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like… — Anne Ursu Book Copy Share Image
“She could have taken root. She wanted to be a Rose, somebody’s Rose, their Rose—and she would have been company for the… — Anne Ursu Business Copy Share Image
“She did not know how to react, for when your heart has been poisoned and someone picks a dandelion for you -… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“Hazel could not explain that she had forgotten, that there was Jack and soul-sucking villains, and sometimes you are too scratchy to… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“There were so many Jacks she had known, and he had known so many Hazels. And maybe she wasn't going to be… — Anne Ursu Friendship Copy Share Image
