"She looked at her shelves, filled with books……" — Anne Ursu
"She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into the woods. In a weird way, the world seemed to make more sense that way."
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19 Quotes by Anne Ursu
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But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline,…
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This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with a great sense of dread.…
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He squeezed Steve's shoulder possessively. "Oh, Zero. He is not you, I must admit. He does not have your bravery,…
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Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that…
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I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I…
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She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you…
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Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.
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