“It’s a plié. You do it on all the positions. It’s very good for dramatic moments.” — Anne Ursu Dramatic Copy Share Image
“She didn’t know the answer. But there had to be a way. There was always a way.” — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“She had believed that because someone needed saving they were savable.” — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“We’re starting with the villain,” Martin interjected. “Because they are the most fun.” — Anne Ursu Character Copy Share Image
“What are you supposed to do when something like that happens? Do you hold on or let go?” — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a… — Anne Ursu Cold Copy Share Image
She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface. — Anne Ursu Flower 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
“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
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
“ 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
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
“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
“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
“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
This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with a great sense of dread. It hit… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“Hazel knew her mother really meant I hope there is something you were dying to do at school today, that you are… — Anne Ursu Parenting Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a boy named Jack who got lost in the woods. His best friend went after him.… — Anne Ursu Best friend Copy Share Image
“Hazel wanted to ask him what he was thinking, what he was feeling, if he was regretting the witch or was just… — Anne Ursu Mind and heart Copy Share Image
“But I can tell you this,” he continued. “The white witch doesn’t feel things the way we do, do you understand? She’s… — Anne Ursu Witch Copy Share Image
“Jack was the only person she knew with an imagination, at least a real one. The only tea parties he’d have were… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
Jack believed in something—he believed in white witches and sleighs pulled by wolves, and in the world the trees obscured. He believed… — Anne Ursu Better things Copy Share Image
Hazel had read enough books to know that a line like this one is the line down which your life breaks in… — Anne Ursu Barriers Copy Share Image
“ This is nothing. And you are nothing. She took another step, and stumbled. The ground was plummeting downward now. You are… — Anne Ursu Best friend Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen middle grade books criticized by adult readers for leaving things for the reader to figure out, for not having perfect… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“The witch raised one careful eyebrow. “I? I want nothing,” she told Hazel. “Don’t you see? I want nothing.” — Anne Ursu Witch Copy Share Image
In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth. — Anne Ursu Lying Copy Share Image
“The boys wouldn’t come to save him. Only Hazel would. And maybe that’s why the boys would win.” — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world.” — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight. — Anne Ursu Brave 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
