89 Quotes by Kelly Barnhill

Some of us... choose love over power. Indeed, most of us do.

Curiosity is the curse of the Clever. Or perhaps cleverness is the curse of the Curious.

The wrong boy, the village said. The wrong boy, the world said. Year after year after year. And Ned believed it.

Death is always sudden, even when it isn’t.

Knowledge is power, but it is a terrible power when it is hoarded and hidden.

Hope and light and motion, her soul whispered. Hope and formation and fusion, Hope and heat and accretion. The miracle of gravity. The miracle of transformation. Each precious thing is destroyed and each precious thing is saved. Hope, hope, hope.

How many feelings can one heart hold? She looked at her grandmother. At her mother. At the man protecting his family. Infinite, Luna thought. The way the universe is infinite. It is light and dark and endless motion; it is space and time, and space within space, and time within time. And she knew: there is no limit to what the heart can carry.

My love isn’t divided,” she said. “It is multiplied.

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.