Anne Ursu Quotes
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Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.
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Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.
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I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that goodness wins out...So, if someone's changed overnight - by witch curse or poison apple or were-turtle - you have to show them what's good. You show them love. That works a surprising amount of the time.
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She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is that you should never tell them how to find your grandmother's house.
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In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.
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If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to his body, but a child had a tenuous relationship to his own permanence, and thus, his own shadow.
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A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and she took him for her own. The other was his best friend. And she went after him in ill-considered shoes, brave and completely unprepared.
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This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.