89 Quotes by Kelly Barnhill

But then you were enmagicked. I didn’t mean to, darling; it was an accident, but it couldn’t be undone. And I loved you. I loved you so much. And that couldn’t be undone either.

Intelligence does not mean infallibility, nor does it mean immobility. Intelligence means the ability to learn.

Starlight, as every witch knows, is a marvelous food for a growing infant.

Excuse me,” Fyrian said. And he heaved himself over to a low shrub and vomited profusely. “Oh dear. I seem to have lit some things on fire.

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, dragon. The list went on.

The more he learned, the more he knew what more there was to learn. There were deep pools of knowledge in dusty volumes quietly shelved in libraries, and Antain thirsted for all of them.

Flying on the backs of a flock of paper birds is less comfortable than you might imagine.

The strongest trees on the mountain are the short, gnarled jacks. They let themselves bow and twist, and they live. They survive snowstorms and avalanches and wind. Those.