Anne Ursu Quotes

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• This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.
• People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. They…
• But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of…
• The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and…
• This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with a great sense of dread. It hit her with a…
• He squeezed Steve's shoulder possessively. "Oh, Zero. He is not you, I must admit. He does not have your bravery, your nobility, your je ne…
• It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.
• Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.
• I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that goodness wins out...So,…
• She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all…
• Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.
• A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and she took him…
• Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories. You understand that there is the…
• 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…
• She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.
• Hazel had read enough books to know that a line like this one is the line down which your life breaks in two. And you…
• Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight.
• Jack believed in something—he believed in white witches and sleighs pulled by wolves, and in the world the trees obscured. He believed that there were…
• In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.

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