Kelly Barnhill

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

“There is no utter truth or utter falsehood in this world. There is only mostly. Which part of the mostly you choose to accept, well, that much is up to you.”

“There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.”

“Memory was a slippery thing—slick moss on an unstable slope—and it was ever so easy to lose one’s footing and fall”

“She is doing that on purpose, he thought as he tried to force his own smile away from his wide, damp jaws. She is being adorable as some sort of hideous ruse, to spite me. What a mean baby!...Do not fall in love with that baby...”

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

“Not every story is true. And sometimes the things that were wicked become the things that save us, and the things that were good doom us to misery and pain.”

“But as the years passed, Ned's silence grew and grew. It pressed upon his face and his body. It leaked into the house and spread outward into the yard. His silence had weight. It had substance and presence and teeth.”

“Just because you don't see something doesn't mean it isn't there. Some of the most wonderful things in the world are invisible. Trusting in invisible things makes them more powerful and wondrous.”