Anne Ursu Quotes
Top 40 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anne Ursu
Anne Ursu Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves - that you could have magic without monsters.
No one took her seriously because she was small and feathered, a strange little dino-bird, but she had a sickle claw and she was not afraid to use it.
Ladders were not inherently dangerous, he told himself, people climbed them every day, and most of them lived.
The house felt strange. Altered. Like someone had come in during the day and shrunk all the furniture just a tiny bit.
Hazel shrugged. She heard Bobby's voice in her head and wondered why it was she who was not allowed to hurt anyone.
I think if you'll look around, my boy,' he said gently, 'you'll find that no one is quite right. But we all do the best we can.
She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.
Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles.
He remembered that part like you'd remember a story someone told to you once, like you might nod in sympathy but it wasn't like it happened to you.
It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.
He lifted his hand to knock, but then he stopped. He could go neither forward nor back, so he simply stayed that way - hand frozen in the air.
The water was holding [him] close and telling him beautiful lies, and since it was the end, he chose to believe them.
It's all going to be okay. She would like to hear that now, even if it was a lie. Because some lies are beautiful. Stories do not tell you that.
This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.
This is what happens on journeys - the things you find are not necessarily the things you had gone looking for.
She wore weird baggy clothes and seemed like the sort of person who might tesser in some dark and stormy night.
You see," the lord explained, "everyone else has them. You wouldn't want your child to be the only one who had flaws. What would it be like for them?
He's gone now. He did something terrible, but ... he did good things, too. And he kept us well. And it's all right if you are sad.
Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.
You can't just kill a swan and wrap yourself in its skin, you know. It takes something from you. In her case it took the thing that she wanted most.
The witch raised one careful eyebrow. "I? I want nothing," she told Hazel. "Don't you see? I want nothing.
They said words they did not mean, and their conversations seemed to follow all kinds of rules - rules that no one has ever explained to Oscar.