Poetry Quote by Kelly Barnhill

“...she immediately became the person they believed her to be: a peculiar, impatient girl, attractive enough yet too old and odd for the village…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She was about forty: In her youth She had been a Beauty; But her charms had been upon that large scale which can but…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“Common sense...was one of the strongest ingredients of her character. She knew well enough that her fate was not to be an iota different…

— Nancy Byrd Turner

“With her ten-year-old nephew as a guide, she tried to think of it as an adventure. And then came the more difficult part-she had…

— Laurie Fabiano

“She escaped from the schools when she turned eighteen. And she went on to be a Doctor, because the only way to fight what…

— Leah Bobet

“Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an…

— Tove Jansson

“She was thirty-two, but drew blank on various periods of her life. In her own peculiar turn of phrase, they were like holes in…

— Fuminori Nakamura

“When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions.”

— Orson Scott Card

“The older she got, the more human her parents seemed, and that was one of the scariest things in the world. She missed being…

— Robin Benway

“She learned a lot and some of the things she learned were hard to accept. She was made to realize once and for all…

— Mary Norton

“She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty…

— George Eliot

“Exactly what I said: she’s still a child in many ways, so she’s discovering all the fine and noble causes for the first time,…

— Donna Leon