89 Quotes by Kelly Barnhill

The Fool, when removedfrom solid ground, leaps-From mountaintop,to burning star,to black, black space.The scholar,when bereft of scroll,of quill,of heavy tome,Falls. And cannot be found.

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

I've already outlasted any reasonable allotment of life on this earth. And I'm ever so curious to know what comes next.

Fine. I will tell you a story. But you won't like it. And it will make you cry.

I won't forget," she said"You will surely forget, Xan. Have you not met yourself?

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

It's all right,' she said. Her throat hurt. Her chest hurt. Love hurt. So why was she happy? 'The world is good. Go see it.'And the bird leaped into the sky and flew away.

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.

...And a tree stump became a very large, very pink, very perplexed looking g bird, who sat sprawled on the ground, wings akimbo, as if shocked by its own existence. Which, Xan reasoned, the poor thing probably was