“Each mortal beast must find it's Ground- be it forrest or fen or field or fire.” — Kelly Barnhill Beast Copy Share Image
“In every breeze exhales the promise of spring, Each sleeping tree dreams green dreams; the barren mountain wakes in blossom.” — Kelly Barnhill Dreams Copy Share Image
“A person's soul is bigger than his body. It takes root and lives in all who love him.” — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“When you apologize, however, you may begin healing yourself. It is not for us. It is for you. I recommend it.” — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“There is no freedom without wholeness, no hope unless the thing that has been broken is restored.” — Kelly Barnhill Freedom Copy Share Image
“Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change.” — Kelly Barnhill Change Copy Share Image
“Intelligence does not mean infallibility, nor does it mean immobility. Intelligence means the ability to learn.” — Kelly Barnhill Ability Copy Share Image
“From grain of sand, Births light births space births infinite time, and to grain of sand do all things return.” — Kelly Barnhill Infinite time Copy Share Image
“But as she continued and finished her tale, I could tell that her heart was elsewhere, and when she excused herself to… — Kelly Barnhill Beauty Copy Share Image
“The strongest trees on the mountain are the short, gnarled jacks. They let themselves bow and twist, and they live. They survive… — Kelly Barnhill Flower Copy Share Image
“The Fool, when removed from solid ground, leaps- From mountaintop, to burning star, to black, black space. The scholar, when bereft of… — Kelly Barnhill Fool Copy Share Image
“It had been years since Xan last walked this trail. Centuries, really. She shivered. Everything looked so different. And yet . . . not.” — Kelly Barnhill Heart Copy Share Image
“She was eleven, after all. She was both even and odd. She was ready to be many things at once—child, grown-up, poet,… — Kelly Barnhill Child Copy Share Image
“Love transforms our fragile, cowardly hearts into hearts of stone, hearts of blade, hearts of hardest iron. Because love makes heroes of… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is the curse of the Clever. Or perhaps cleverness is the curse of the Curious. In any case, I am never… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“There is no utter truth or utter falsehood in this world. There is only mostly. Which part of the mostly you choose… — Kelly Barnhill Choice Copy Share Image
“Stuff. The stuff of stars. The stuff of light. The stuff of a planet before it is a planet. The stuff of… — Kelly Barnhill Astronomy Copy Share Image
Each of us is our own story, but none of us is only our own story. The arc of my own personal… — Kelly Barnhill Kids Copy Share Image
“How many feelings can one heart hold? She looked at her grandmother. At her mother. At the man protecting his family. Infinite,… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
I do open endings on purpose. I expect a lot from my readers. I want them to do much of the work,… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“The heart is built of starlight And time. A pinprick of longing lost in the dark. An unbroken chord linking the Infinite… — Kelly Barnhill Love Copy Share Image
“So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time,… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“The wrong boy, the village said. The wrong boy, the world said. Year after year after year. And Ned believed it.” — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“Sister Witch didn’t truck with hoping. Hoping was irrational, impractical, and imprecise. Sister Witch was a solver.” — Kelly Barnhill Witch Copy Share Image
“That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.” — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds. — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“The stars cut into the inky black sky, like glinting shards of glass.” — Kelly Barnhill Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Patience does not run Nor blow, nor skitter, nor falter. Patience is the swell of the ocean; Patience is the sigh of… — Kelly Barnhill Patience Copy Share Image
Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“She is doing that on purpose, he thought as he tried to force his own smile away from his wide, damp jaws.… — Kelly Barnhill Babies Copy Share Image
“And sometimes the things that were wicked become the things that save us, and the things that were good doom us to… — Kelly Barnhill Heavens Copy Share Image
“Just because you don't see something doesn't mean it isn't there. Some of the most wonderful things in the world are invisible.… — Kelly Barnhill Faith Copy Share Image
