89 Quotes by Kelly Barnhill

Death is always sudden,” Glerk said. His eyes had begun to itch. “Even when it isn’t.

Not all knowledge comes from the mind. Your body, your heart, your intuition. Sometimes memories even have minds of their own.

A story can tell the truth... but a story can also lie. Stories can bend and twist and obfuscate. Controlling stories is power indeed.

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

There is no freedom without wholeness, no hope unless the thing that has been broken is restored.

When you apologize, however, you may begin healing yourself. It is not for us. It is for you. I recommend it.

It was a fine thing indeed, Luna thought, being eleven. She loved the symmetry of it, and the lack of symmetry. Eleven was a number that was visually even, but functionally not – it looked one way and behaved in quite another. Just like most eleven-year-olds, or so she assumed.

Human babies are only tiny for an instant – their growing up is as swift as the beat of a hummingbird’s wing.

A word is a magic thing. It holds the essence of an object or idea and pins it to the world. A word can set a universe in motion.