Trees Quote by Kelly Barnhill

“Patience does not run Nor blow, nor skitter, nor falter. Patience is the swell of the ocean; Patience is the sigh of the mountain;…

— Kelly Barnhill

“It had been years since Xan last walked this trail. Centuries, really. She shivered. Everything looked so different. And yet . . . not.”

— Kelly Barnhill

“In every breeze exhales the promise of spring, Each sleeping tree dreams green dreams; the barren mountain wakes in blossom.”

— Kelly Barnhill

“Each mortal beast must find it's Ground- be it forrest or fen or field or fire.”

— Kelly Barnhill

“That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.”

— Kelly Barnhill

“Stuff. The stuff of stars. The stuff of light. The stuff of a planet before it is a planet. The stuff of a baby…

— Kelly Barnhill

“So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the…

— Kelly Barnhill

“Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change.”

— Kelly Barnhill

“She was eleven, after all. She was both even and odd. She was ready to be many things at once—child, grown-up, poet, engineer, botanist,…

— Kelly Barnhill

“From grain of sand, Births light births space births infinite time, and to grain of sand do all things return.”

— Kelly Barnhill

“A person's soul is bigger than his body. It takes root and lives in all who love him.”

— Kelly Barnhill

Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of birds, from…

— Kelly Barnhill