“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.” PeopleHeartTwoEyeBoysColdBraveShoesIllHis EyesWitchUnpreparedSplinters Author:Anne Ursu
“Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories. You understand that there is the surface and then there are all the things that glimmer and shift underneath it. And you know that not everyone believes in those things, that there are people—a great many people—who believe the world cannot be any more than what they can see with their eyes. But we know better.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveStoriesSeemsEyeCoursesSurfaceBe You Author:Anne Ursu
“She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into the woods. In a weird way, the world seemed to make more sense that way.” PeopleWorldWayBookStuffHappenedFilledWoodsWitchShelvesBad Stuff Author:Anne Ursu
“People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. They walked across malevolent swirling whiteness and did not know if they would survive. Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure. That was what looking at the witch was like.” PeopleIfsKnowsPleasureSawsDoorsFrontsSnowWitchPioneersBlinkWhitenessFront DoorsSnowstorms Author:Anne Ursu
