The Real Boy
Anne Ursu
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I think if you'll look around, my boy,' he said gently, 'you'll find that no one is quite right. But we all do the best we can.”
“It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves—that you could have magic without monsters.”
“There is a way the truth hits you, both hard and gentle at the same time. It punches you in the stomach as it puts its loving arm around your shoulder. Yes, I am terrible to behold, the truth says. But you suspected it all along, didn't you? And isn't better, now that you know? Now, at least, it all makes sense.”
“He lifted his hand to knock, but then he stopped. He could go neither forward nor back, so he simply stayed that way—hand frozen in the air.”
“No one else needed to do this. No one else needed lessons on how to be a person.”
“The words kept coming and he could not stop them, not while Callie was standing there so indecipherably, and so he was going to keep talking until he used up all the words there were and then no one would be able to talk to anyone else anymore and then all anyone would have left were one another's unintelligible faces, and maybe some weird gesturing, too, and it would be all Oscar's fault.”
“Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles.”
“Oscar did not know what he was supposed to be feeling right now, what all the adults behind him would be expecting him to feel. He did not even know what he was, in fact, feeling. Except, whatever it was, it was a lot. Too much. More than bodies could hold.”
“You see," the lord explained, "everyone else has them. You wouldn't want your child to be the only one who had flaws. What would it be like for them?”
“There is something in the magic we have that is greater than the magic we can do.”
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being-different, fear, lies, social-cues, abuse-of-power, problems, indecision, anxiety, panic, nervousness, waste, death, wealth, excess, expectations, awkward, loss, denial, grief
