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> [“That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/that-s-the-magic-of-revisions-every-cut-is-necessary-and-every-cut/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

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## More by Kelly Barnhill

> [“Patience does not run Nor blow, nor skitter, nor falter. Patience is the swell of the ocean; Patience is the sigh of the mountain;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/patience-does-not-run-nor-blow-nor-skitter-nor-falter-patience-is-the/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

> [“It had been years since Xan last walked this trail. Centuries, really. She shivered. Everything looked so different. And yet . . . not.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/it-had-been-years-since-xan-last-walked-this-trail-centuries-really/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

> [“In every breeze exhales the promise of spring, Each sleeping tree dreams green dreams; the barren mountain wakes in blossom.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/in-every-breeze-exhales-the-promise-of-spring-each-sleeping-tree/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

> [“Each mortal beast must find it's Ground- be it forrest or fen or field or fire.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/each-mortal-beast-must-find-it-s-ground-be-it-forrest-or-fen-or-field/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

> [“That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/that-s-the-magic-of-revisions-every-cut-is-necessary-and-every-cut/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

> [“Stuff. The stuff of stars. The stuff of light. The stuff of a planet before it is a planet. The stuff of a baby…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/stuff-the-stuff-of-stars-the-stuff-of-light-the-stuff-of-a-planet/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

> [“So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/so-maybe-the-reading-room-is-magic-because-books-really-are-magic-i/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

> [“Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/everything-you-see-is-in-the-process-of-making-or-unmaking-or-dying/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

> [“She was eleven, after all. She was both even and odd. She was ready to be many things at once—child, grown-up, poet, engineer, botanist,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/she-was-eleven-after-all-she-was-both-even-and-odd-she-was-ready-to/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

> [“From grain of sand, Births light births space births infinite time, and to grain of sand do all things return.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/from-grain-of-sand-births-light-births-space-births-infinite-time-and/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

> [“A person's soul is bigger than his body. It takes root and lives in all who love him.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/a-person-s-soul-is-bigger-than-his-body-it-takes-root-and-lives-in/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

> [Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of birds, from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/stories-have-a-tendency-to-seep-across-the-shining-membrane-walls/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

> [“The Fool, when removed from solid ground, leaps- From mountaintop, to burning star, to black, black space. The scholar, when bereft of scroll, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/the-fool-when-removed-from-solid-ground-leaps-from-mountaintop-to/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

> [“Death is always sudden, even when it isn't”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/death-is-always-sudden-even-when-it-isn-t/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

> [“There is no freedom without wholeness, no hope unless the thing that has been broken is restored.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-barnhill/there-is-no-freedom-without-wholeness-no-hope-unless-the-thing-that/)

[Kelly Barnhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-barnhill/)

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