“I think if you'll look around, my boy,' he said gently, 'you'll find that no one is quite right. But we all… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have… — Anne Ursu Child Copy Share Image
“She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.” — Anne Ursu Repelled Copy Share Image
“No one took her seriously because she was small and feathered, a strange little dino-bird, but she had a sickle claw and… — 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
“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
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
“ 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
“It was not supposed to be this easy. This was to be the final confrontation. There was to be struggle, torment, despair.… — Anne Ursu Struggle Copy Share Image
“There is a way the truth hits you, both hard and gentle at the same time. It punches you in the stomach… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“A sick-hued darkness overtook Hazel. There was ground, somewhere, and somewhere beyond that there was a palace, and somewhere beyond that was… — Anne Ursu Darkness Copy Share Image
“I believe that the world isn’t always what we can see,” he said. “I believe there are secrets in the woods. And… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories. You understand that… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to… — Anne Ursu Adults Copy Share Image
“She came in thinking she would rescue him, like some sort of story, like a little kid pretending to be a brave… — Anne Ursu 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
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
“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
“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
“You see," the lord explained, "everyone else has them. You wouldn't want your child to be the only one who had flaws.… — Anne Ursu Children 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“Charlotte sighed inwardly. She knew her mother was serious when she started referring to shellfish. What did that mean, anyway? What's so… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that… — Anne Ursu Apples 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
