Ashlee Willis > Quotes

“Nothing dies as beautifully as autumn.”
― Ashlee Willis, A Wish Made of Glass

“In my world," said Posy, "authors write stories, and the characters do whatever the author tells them. It's not like this--the characters don't have minds and lives of their own."
"How do you know this?" was Caris' surprising reply. The corner of her mouth turned up in a playful smile. "You do not see the characters when the pages of the book are shut. Is there never a time when you read a book for the second time and you notice something that you didn't remember from the first time? Or hear a story told, and every time it is told it grows and changes in the telling? Change is the nature of everything.”
― Ashlee Willis, The Word Changers

“Only the forest.” Blessing’s voice is dismissive.

“How can you say only the forest?” I ask, aghast. “No forest is only a forest.”
― Ashlee Willis, A Wish Made of Glass

“I wrote you, you are mine," it continued, its voice as hard as its diamond eyes. "But I do not write everything you do and think. I do not write every decision you make. Not because I cannot-but because I will not.”
― Ashlee Willis, The Word Changers

“Do not lose your heart," she said. What she did not tell me was that the surest way to lose it was to hold it tight.”
― Ashlee Willis, A Wish Made of Glass

“Moonlight and prayers and glass and frost and wishes. That’s what they look like.”
― Ashlee Willis, A Wish Made of Glass

“Each step I take toward him is one more step closer to home.”
― Ashlee Willis, A Wish Made of Glass

“Perhaps someday, when you are a father, Prince, you will understand how empty is your heart if your child is a hollow toy that you can move where you will him to be”
― Ashlee Willis, The Word Changers

“I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a child as that, let alone the woman she promised to become.”
― Ashlee Willis, A Wish Made of Glass

“They are faithful, even if we are not.”
― Ashlee Willis, A Wish Made of Glass

“Yet something else trickles in between the cracks of this despairing thought. The hope of something to fill that emptiness. The hope that, perhaps, I have found it already. And suddenly hope is a thing alive, soaring in me. Its wings beat against my ribs, wild with the promise of joy.”
― Ashlee Willis, A Wish Made of Glass

“Then he melts into the wood as if he is more a part of it than its own shadows.”
― Ashlee Willis, A Wish Made of Glass