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Come on, she willed through the care window. Come on, change me. I dare you. -- Shannon Hale
We see the surface, blue or silver or gray, and waves hitting the shore. But we know there's so much we can't see, so what we love about it becomes in part what we imagine it is hiding. -- Shannon Hale
Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right. -- Shannon Hale
Mr Nobley: Ah here you are. Miss Erstwhile. You are infuriating and irritating, and yet I find myself looking for you. I would be grateful if you would send me away and make me swear to never return. -- Shannon Hale
Madeline Hatter. Her lavender-streaked teal hair exploded around her in messy curls. The polka-dotted, striped, and lacy layers of her skirt were bunched and fluffed. Her teacup hat tilted low over one ear. "Whoops, -- Shannon Hale
So I will just say it. I cannot love you as a man loves a woman. I am so sorry if I have presumed what is not true or have taken liberties with your sentiments. I hope you can forgive me. -- Shannon Hale
Without hope, it was impossible to fantasize. -- Shannon Hale
First thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I don't think your geese care much for your betrothed and I hope they hadn't any plans on sharing our bed. -- Shannon Hale
She wore white heirloom lace about her throat
And in her hair a bright golden feather
A pearl like a plum hung ripe from her neck
But her smile fetched ten gold together -- Shannon Hale
Even if things were broken right now. Sometimes it was the cracks that let the light in. -- Shannon Hale
Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd like it to have a beginning as grand as a ball and an ending in a whisper, like a mother tucking in a child for sleep. -- Shannon Hale
Reading a book is like going on a great journey. You don't know what'll happen, but something is bound to change. And for me, that change has always been good. -- Shannon Hale
It's good to cry a bit, 'cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is though, there's no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be all but swallowed up. -- Shannon Hale
I believe reading books is one of the best ways to gain real empathy for people different from ourselves, and helping boys develop empathy for girls is a cause worth fighting for. -- Shannon Hale
(I love you, you're perfect, you're everything, you toast my marshmallows, baby.) -- Shannon Hale
Okay, okay, I can do this, Jane said to herself. Of course I can do this. I should be used to making a fool out of myself by now. This will be the last big one. Just three weeks and then I can leave this part of myself behind and get on with my life. And maybe it'll be fun. It might even be fun. -- Shannon Hale
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. -- Shannon Hale
The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day. -- Shannon Hale
Will you accompany me in this dance?" he said, bowing and holding out his hand.
"No, thank you." Miri smiled.
The prince frowned and looked and the chief delegate as if for assistance.
Miri laughed self consciously. "I, uh, I was teasing. -- Shannon Hale
The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna tripped often, and cursed each time she tripped, until Dasha said, "Enna, you might watch your language."
Enna grimaced. "I was. You should hear my thoughts. -- Shannon Hale
What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts? -- Shannon Hale
But fluttery hope suggested that when she was ready to open back up, perhaps all emotions wouldn't be stones-pressing-chest horrible. She had no specific expectations. She just contemplated that bird's heartbeat inside her and considered it was time to take a chance. -- Shannon Hale
A cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song. -- Shannon Hale
My friends call me by my name."
"You don't have any friends."
"I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong. -- Shannon Hale
Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. -- Shannon Hale
So thick with cobwebs it seemed like skeletons had decorated for a party. Raven fought her way through the webs to the far wall and ripped the velvet cloth off the mirror. She saw her own reflection staring back - long black hair with purple highlights, dark eyebrows, -- Shannon Hale
No wolf falters before the bite
So strike
No hawk wavers before the dive
Just strike -- Shannon Hale
Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then her voice, like her singing, cut through the crickets and crackling fire. -- Shannon Hale
I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself. -- Shannon Hale
Briar thrust a crystal cup with a silver spoon into Apple's hands. "Whipped air. Try it. Totally invisible and totally good." Apple dipped the spoon into the empty cup and touched it to her tongue. The nothingness tasted like chocolate-raspberry swirl. "Mm, this is amazing. -- Shannon Hale
Run." Raven took off, Apple on her heels, screaming as a swarm of flying, crawling, leaping insects chased them. "Aah!" Apple screamed. "Aah! I mean, La la la!" Apple sang desperately. "LA LA LA LA! -- Shannon Hale
Nom, do say something funny so she can admire! -- Shannon Hale
Daring Charming was facing her down. "It's no use, Cerise Hood," said Daring. "I am a Charming - brave, cunning, athletic - " Cerise faked left and dribbled right around him, driving toward the royals' end of the court. -- Shannon Hale
Falling in love and falling to your death feel about the same, I thought. And I almost laughed. -- Shannon Hale
My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don't, and that's what makes them more precious. -- Shannon Hale
You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free. -- Shannon Hale
It doesn't seem to matter what we think ... The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do. -- Shannon Hale
Loan me your lace of yellow, sister
Lend me your fine kid gloves
Tonight is the bridal ball, sister
Tonight I'll meet my love
Present me a sash of blue, sister
Gift me a ribbon of white
My love awaits me below, sister
I am a bride tonight -- Shannon Hale
I'm sorry, my lady," said Geric, rubbing his arm. "But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose. -- Shannon Hale
Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming ... I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all. -- Shannon Hale
More than a thousand days we've been together, more than a thousand songs I've sung for her, and only now, I think, do I see Saren truly begin to heal. -- Shannon Hale
But Princess Magnolia wore glass slippers on weekdays. Princess Magnolia was afraid of snails. Sunlight made Princess Magnolia sneeze. And at the moment, the Princess in Black was hog-tying a monster. -- Shannon Hale
Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion ... -- Shannon Hale
She was craving anything real - bad smells and stupid men, missed trains and tedious jobs. But she remembered that mixed up in the ugly parts of reality were also those true moments of grace - peaches in September, honest laughter, perfect light. -- Shannon Hale
No matter that we could be beheaded for this," said Esa. "Heads are overrated."
"Yes, they are so unfashionable," said Miri, imitating an Aslandian accent. "This spring, ladies of style are wearing their feathers in their necks. -- Shannon Hale
[Razo] knocked, peered inside, then jumped and shut the door, quiet as brushing two feathers together. He smiled at his own stealth, then swaggered right into a chair, banging it against the wall.
You oaf. He cut short his swagger and began to move with exaggerated sneakiness. -- Shannon Hale
'Goose girl, may I kiss you?' She answered by ... kissing him first. -- Shannon Hale
My heart's so light it floats and carries me so my feet don't walk. I sing all day and I don't mind the washing, and that's how I know I'm in love. Completely smitten with My Lord the cat. -- Shannon Hale
Apple's MirrorPhone played a measure of One Reflection's single "You Don't Know You're Charming" to announce she'd received another hext message. -- Shannon Hale
Things are never lost to you; you are lost to them. If ever in need of a Thing that has lost you, simply stop hiding from it. -- Shannon Hale
A pod for peas wears hearts on a sleeve. -- Shannon Hale
Apple smiled at Hunter. And then - yes - she batted her eyelashes. He put a fist on his hip. "Of course! I - " "But no shirt-ripping, if you please," Raven said. "Just the chopping. -- Shannon Hale
Go get dressed, Eddie," she called out. "If any hopeful murderers attack us, Lizzy has promised to beat them with her curling iron. -- Shannon Hale
I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real. -- Shannon Hale
Dizzy, chilly, and beat, Raven collapsed on her bed. She rolled over, sensing a pea under the mattress. Typical Orientation Week prank. She dug around, found the pea, and tossed it across the room. -- Shannon Hale
Raven was asking Apple to give up all known paths forever after. To lose everything that was known and safe. To spend her entire life on unfamiliar paths and wind-beaten cliffs. Every day uncertain, dangerous, treading water in a well with no guarantee of a Happily Ever After. -- Shannon Hale
And Pride and Prejudice was the most stunning, bite-your-hand romance ever, the kind that stared straight into Jane's soul and made her shudder. -- Shannon Hale
She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue
The mountain, my lady
She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning dew,
Mount Eskel, my lady -- Shannon Hale
When the mountain quaked
Like an elbow's nudge
Like a shout that something is wrong
The people awoke and
Knew, yes, knew, that bandits had come -- Shannon Hale
He nodded. And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you. -- Shannon Hale
I told everyone you didn't go poof, but they just looked at me funny," said Maddie. Cedar shook her head. "You said, 'Tiny crow crowned unconfused with a cloud.' -- Shannon Hale
They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together. -- Shannon Hale
You'd eat a plate, and call it pleasantly crunchy. -- Shannon Hale
She put a wedge beside my heart
And then she brought the mallet down
She sang no song to guide her work
I lost my heart without a sound -- Shannon Hale
Hope had been that thing with burnt feathers buried in her soul, but now it was waking up, stretching, beating fresh wings in the ashes. -- Shannon Hale
Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ ... "
(Rapunzel glares)
"Prin ... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that. -- Shannon Hale
Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't. -- Shannon Hale
A long, thin line like steam trailed from the mirror through the room and into the cup of tea. The heat from the tea was warming the egg, steamy tendrils rising, wrapping around its bright spotted shell. Already there were cracks. "Get the egg!" Raven said. Raven -- Shannon Hale
She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds. -- Shannon Hale
This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no! -- Shannon Hale
We are ill-fated in that our society demands we engage in unworthy conversations and dances in order to seem courteous, and yet such actions are ultimately vulgar. -- Shannon Hale
The god of creation broke me from stone
The mountain's the only ma I've known
My pa is the blue sky sheltering me
So stone I am and stone I'll be -- Shannon Hale
Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it. -- Shannon Hale
I want to be happy. I used to want Mr. Darcy, laugh at me if you want, or the idea of him. Someone who made me feel all the time like I felt when I watched those movies. -- Shannon Hale
Breakfast should always come before sleuthing. -- Shannon Hale
As long as there are movement and harmony, there are words. -- Shannon Hale
Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head. -- Shannon Hale
They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything else. She looked back. Her took heart took its time quieting down. -- Shannon Hale
My advice: If you every have the chance to change the world, don't hesitate. Leave your great big mark. -- Shannon Hale
Sometimes I think they're all ridiculous. There I was, a sensible person with thoughts in my head, offering a solution. And they wouldn't listen. What aggravation, to believe I can help and yet not be allowed. -Dashti -- Shannon Hale
The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper. -- Shannon Hale
Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers. -- Shannon Hale
Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard."
"LIVER. Good one."
"Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?"
"Life Invasion. Like it."
"Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport."
"Doesn't that spell OLIVER? -- Shannon Hale
Each time, Jane's heart banged, her skin chilled, and she clamped down on the distracting ache in her gut with a bowl of something naughty, like Cocoa Pebbles. -- Shannon Hale
Here's the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you. -- Shannon Hale
When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful. -- Shannon Hale
You can be who you will," he repeated. His voice softened. "And if you will have me, I will be the one beside you. -- Shannon Hale
Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her. -- Shannon Hale
If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours. -- Shannon Hale
Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms. -- Shannon Hale
Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say. -- Shannon Hale
You'd better not talk about microscopes anymore," he whispered, "or I don't know if I can control myself. -- Shannon Hale
Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and blue, and purple, for the sake of all ordered things, how can you dismiss purple? Celi, call Nom back and tell him of my need for purple! -- Shannon Hale
They walked back through the village, and Miri kept her eyes on the ground before her. The whole world had shifted, and she was not sure she could keep her feet. She was her ma alive again. When Miri returned, she found Marda moved -- Shannon Hale
I read that a gentleman gives a lady flowers, and I thought maybe I'm not a gentleman, but no reason not to treat you like a lady. -- Shannon Hale
Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan. -- Shannon Hale
Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly."
No, I'm not," said Ani.
Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that? -- Shannon Hale
Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books. -- Shannon Hale
Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.. -- Shannon Hale
He is ever inglorious
His laugh is laborious
His smell is notorious
Impale the herring king! -- Shannon Hale
I was under the stars, like a fish is under water. -- Shannon Hale
I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out. -- Shannon Hale
Rock Canyon OB-GYN: We're GYNO-MITE! -- Shannon Hale
He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all the alcohol he imbibed, so he wouldn't look or act much different. -- Shannon Hale
I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop. -- Shannon Hale
Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with his hands, forming their size and shape from the air. "They were yellow, and smallish, and had lots of petals." "Thank you," she said. "They were beautiful. -- Shannon Hale
Well, I don't want to complain," Apple began. "Oh, go ahead and complain. That's why you have a best friend forever after. -- Shannon Hale
Gerti didn't ask for help." Miri swallowed and tried to calm her quavering voice. "It was my fault."
"So it was. Now you all have learned that those who speak out of turn choose punishment for themselves and anyone they speak to."
"So if I speak to you, Tutor Olana, will you get the lashes? -- Shannon Hale
Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts. -- Shannon Hale
WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL
For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended!
REWARD -- Shannon Hale
NASA's next urgent mission should be to send good poets into space so they can describe what it's really like.
Dangerous by Shannon Hale -- Shannon Hale
Once she'd thought all the knowledge in the world was contained in the princess academy's thirteen books. Now she faced thousands. She wondered if she should curtsy as if she were entering a chapel. -- Shannon Hale
She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood that she had found her place. -- Shannon Hale
I think sometimes just being silent and watching can change a person. -- Shannon Hale
Hope had been beaten to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotional coma. So much easier not to feel. -- Shannon Hale
Sometimes it seems my identity's a matter of opinion -- Shannon Hale
As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient. -- Shannon Hale
He wildly combed his hair with his fingers. "I can't bear to be out there with you right now, all those indifferent people watching you, admiring you, but not really caring. Not as I do." Jane: (hopeful) Really? Jane: (practical) Oh, stop that. -- Shannon Hale
I cannot write to anyone outside myself
if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please. -- Shannon Hale
I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-"
"It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule. -- Shannon Hale
She made herself take two deep-rooted yoga breaths, smiled back, and thought of men in breeches. -- Shannon Hale
A little snark, properly directed, can change the world. -- Shannon Hale
And then Rollan reached out and took her hand. His fingers were warm. Meilin had never been so aware of the beating of her heart. -- Shannon Hale
Razo wasn't good at anything except maybe cramming two cherries up one nostril. -- Shannon Hale
I know muckers are the simplest of commoners and becoming a lady's maid is a right honor, but I couldn't give up the wild steppes forever, couldn't turn my back on Mama and all she taught. I feel like a mucker from the ends of my hair to the mud of my bones. -- Shannon Hale
No one had ever called her wild before. She wanted to be wild now, for him. Wild seemed more enticing then a bowl of berries. -- Shannon Hale
Here you've been, a spider in the corner, observing, weaving Charlotte's web of mystery. -- Shannon Hale
Who am I to tell a man to live? Who am I to claim the powers of the Ancestors? I moved aside so the shawman could have more room to do his holy work. He's climbed the Scared Mountain and seen the face of the Ancestors. I have no place beside him. -Dashti -- Shannon Hale
Today I keep thinking of all the people who have left and never returned - my brothers, Khan Tegus, our guards, this entire city. What a strange, dark world that swallows people whole. -- Shannon Hale
Twenty-two hours, forty-seven minutes, and eighteen seconds to go! -- Shannon Hale
He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer. -- Shannon Hale
Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident -- Shannon Hale
Briar stood, pushing up her sleeves. 'It's about to get all nonfiction in here'. -- Shannon Hale
I mean, without the antagonist, there would be no story! It'd be like: 'Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to be loved, so she met a prince and got married and lived Happily Ever After, The End'? That's not a story; that's a bumper sticker. -- Shannon Hale
Get that thing out of my chair," said the king. Two soldiers removed Ungolad's body from the throne -- Shannon Hale
Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be. -- Shannon Hale
The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind. -- Shannon Hale
Ani told them all ... telling more than needed telling, the stories clarifying and unifying themselves in her mind as she let them spill out of her mouth. -- Shannon Hale
Rin slept inside the oak's thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself. -- Shannon Hale
Life feels like fall of itself."
"'A dream within a dream."
"And I want to wake up. -- Shannon Hale
It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat."
"Did she just call you tree rat? -- Shannon Hale
We found it!" Charlotte yelled, as they ran back through the house. "We found it, we found it!"
Eddie, Mr. Mallery, and Colonel Andrews came from separate directions, converging in the front hall. Miss Charming was hopping up and down, her bosom nearly rising to slap her own forehead. -- Shannon Hale
When thoughts aren't sticking, are thicker than stew What is true? What to do? When strife is looming, naught brewing for you Ask anew, what to do? Peder -- Shannon Hale
King Dan sat on his stallion fierce Swords did slice and spears did pierce But in a tree upon the field Perched a small, keen-eyed blackbird And the blackbird did not sing No, the blackbird did not sing Miri's -- Shannon Hale
Humming the Star Wars theme to encourage myself, I wobbled onto my feet. Sometimes a girl's gotta provide her own trumpet-heavy heroic soundtrack. -- Shannon Hale
A woman without hobbies is dangerously self-negligent. -- Shannon Hale
Generally speaking, if a guy breaks your jaw and leg and cuts off your robotic arm, you file charges and get a restraining order. The only exception is when subtle machinations are needed to save the world from a massive, catastrophic alien takeover. But in no other circumstance. -- Shannon Hale
But man, can she snore," Cedar smiled wistfully, "Do you think when I become a real girl I'll be able to snore, too? -- Shannon Hale
I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you. -- Shannon Hale
We stand up for the farmers
Who can't keep enough to eat
We walk out for the workers
Who don't know the taste of meat
We run forward for the children
With no shoes upon their feet
We will march this kingdom down
We will break the golden crown -- Shannon Hale
The army slew a thousand and showed little pity
The king ordered fealty from the conquered city
The prince charmed its people with words wise and witty
And the queen sat on a couch, looking very pretty -- Shannon Hale
Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late. -- Shannon Hale
I didn't raise you I be good and weak. I raised you to be powerful and happy. -- Shannon Hale
You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such thing as royal blood. I believe we are what we make ourselves, and as such, you, Crown Princess, are nothing. -- Shannon Hale
She was not who she'd thought she was. No one was. -- Shannon Hale
Do you know the feeling you get when you are awakened in the middle of a dream? The dream story is still real and full of color, but the waking world is rushing back into your mind. And for a moment both worlds are true, and you cannot quite tell them apart. -- Shannon Hale
There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate. -- Shannon Hale
To be powerful, a kiss should make a journey, be its own story
begin with hesitation, move to realization, then melt into bliss. -- Shannon Hale
Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul. -- Shannon Hale
Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye. -- Shannon Hale
Courage is not fearlessness. -- Shannon Hale
Duty doesn't always fit comfortably. -- Shannon Hale
If it had been a color, it might have been green. If it had touched her ears, it might have sounded rhythmic, like the creak of a rocking chair or drone of a bee. If it had a scent, it might have been sweet and drowsy, like fresh pine on the fire. -- Shannon Hale
For Colin Firth:
You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends. -- Shannon Hale
Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue. -- Shannon Hale
Think of learning as storing up supplies you may need for a harsh winter. -- Shannon Hale
Ease up, nasty little frigid pixies -- Shannon Hale
Bury the embers, extinguish the spark
We plunge ourselves in the well of dark
Far from voices that trouble and chatter
Down, deep down, where worries don't matter
Our minds all teem with the unseen thing
But night is a blink and sleep but a dream
Wake, wake, see things as they seem -- Shannon Hale
He did a very good impression of a stone column. -- Shannon Hale
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme."
"Bizarre and adorable?"
"Just like you."
"With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes"
"Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells. -- Shannon Hale
She knew it! Charlotte just knew it! And now her daughter was boyfriend-less! Yes! Wait-no! Oh no, poor Lu. -- Shannon Hale
Personally, I believe "Young Adult" to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who's not quite an adult/Isn't really boring. -- Shannon Hale
Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense. -- Shannon Hale
Colonel Andrews popped his head through the doorway. "Did I hear a sigh?"
Miss Charming screamed and dropped her needlework, and Charlotte jumped in her chair, knocking her knee against a marble coffee table. -- Shannon Hale
Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts. -- Shannon Hale
I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna -- Shannon Hale
Sometimes doing the right thing was hard ... and potentially messy. But a good leader always did the right thing. -- Shannon Hale
I couldn't remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn't put a book down, and that was a tragedy. -- Shannon Hale
My ma says You can't unspill a stew."
"She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right."
"You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once. -- Shannon Hale
Besides being witty and funny and maybe the best novel ever written, it's also the most perfect romance in all of literature and nothing in life can ever measure up, so I spend my life limping in its shadow. -- Shannon Hale
She pulled a pillow over her head and waited to die. When an hour passed and she still wasn't dead, she got up and pruned the rosebushes. -- Shannon Hale
I, Geric-Sinath of Gerhard, declare that you're beautiful and you're perfect and I'll slay any man who tries to take you from my side. Goose girl, may I kiss you? -- Shannon Hale
Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face. -- Shannon Hale
Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'. -- Shannon Hale
Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare. -- Shannon Hale
You, uh, caught me there at an unladylike moment. Mrs. Wattlesbrook would probably box my ears."
"That's why I spoke. I wanted to let you know you were not alone before you did something
something worse."
"Like what?"
"Whatever women do when they think they're alone. -- Shannon Hale
Is this why women wear heels? thought Jane. We hobble ourselves so we can still be rescued by men? -- Shannon Hale
The End is only the beginning. -- Shannon Hale
Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens -- Shannon Hale
Guilt is the hyena that'll lunge from behind and hamstring you. -- Shannon Hale
You don't need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless. -- Shannon Hale
Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. -- Shannon Hale
He had the kind of face you wanted to kiss - lips, forehead, cheeks, eyelids, everywhere except his chin. That you wanted to bite. -- Shannon Hale
And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step. -- Shannon Hale
I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again. -- Shannon Hale
He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face. -- Shannon Hale
Daring was glaring at Raven as if he could shoot arrows with his eyes. And maybe he could. She'd seen him swordfight holding the sword with his feet. And win. -- Shannon Hale
We know it's all just daydreaming ... But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. -- Shannon Hale
The lowlands aren't so different from here," said Britta. "Just bigger and ... " "A lot bigger," said Frid. "It's -- Shannon Hale
I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.'
Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow. -- Shannon Hale
Age gave her the peace, at least, to live inside that moment like a poet - to not sacrifice the beauty to the anxiety of What Next, but to just observe. -- Shannon Hale
Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy? -- Shannon Hale
In Gotham, batman just stumbles into crime," said Luther. "Salt lake is annoyingly tame. -- Shannon Hale
Listen to this," said Maddie. "Cerise Hood. Cedar Wood. Cerise Hood. Cedar Wood. Cedar, you and Cerise have to be friends or your names will get mad and just march right off you! -- Shannon Hale
You succeed because you're willing to give everything to your craft- everything! -- Shannon Hale
Mr. Nobley: I assure you, I am taking an inordinate amount of pleasure from this ball, but none of it has to do with any of these bumblers. -- Shannon Hale
It was my jewelry! Briar shouted after his father because he'd forgotten to ask what was stolen. -- Shannon Hale
I despise rushing headlong into a mystery. Much more satisfying to dip in a toe, test the waters, ease in slowly before we start to swim. -- Shannon Hale
No chance she'd allow any man to see her naked besides the one who'd gotten her pregnant four times. You broke it, you bought it, baby. -- Shannon Hale
Maybe T-shirts should stick to something obvious, like i'm a girl or 80% water or likely to breathe. -- Shannon Hale
No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart -- Shannon Hale
No one just falls in love, you idiot. -- Shannon Hale
You saw my leg?"
"How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg. -- Shannon Hale
A few minutes later, Miss Charming gasped. But then, Miss Charming gasped a lot. She gasped when someone shut a door too loudly; she gasped when there were sausages for breakfast. She sometimes gasped and then coughed, as if she'd meant to cough from the beginning and gotten the two confused. -- Shannon Hale
And this is where I'll end, before I know what happens next. -- Shannon Hale
I'm not hopeless, that's the problem. I'm too hopeful, if anything ... I'm so thick-headed it's taken me this long to give up on men, but I can't give up completely, you know? So I ... I channel all my hope into an idea, to someone who can't reject me because he isn't real! -- Shannon Hale
The point of education is to learn other ways too. Don't just assume that all you know is right. Learn more and then chose. -- Shannon Hale
A castle of defense, a bastion of might
A fort where the wise teach the young to fight
An armory of weapons, sharp as hooks
Are wrapped in leather and shelved as books -- Shannon Hale
Over there!"
"Where?" Enna asked in mock panic "Do you see something? -- Shannon Hale
Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was so amused, her whole face wanted to be a part of the smile. -- Shannon Hale
I've been shot through the heart, men! Never have I seen such smoldering beauty. -- Shannon Hale
They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh. -- Shannon Hale
Miss Erstwhile: "It is such a relief, Mr. Nobley, to already know that you find this exercise vulgar and your partner unworthy. It saves us the idle chitchat."
Mr. Nobley: "And yet you chat away. -- Shannon Hale
Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get. -- Shannon Hale
I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous. -- Shannon Hale
Am I the moss on your bark, then?" Ani asked.
Enna grabbed her around the waist and shook her affectionately. "You're the mossiest girl I know. -- Shannon Hale
I was thinking how you can't tell if a person's beautiful or not by her shadow ... -- Shannon Hale
Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril. -- Shannon Hale
I wish stories were kinder to their characters," Maddie said. "But I guess trouble is more interesting to read about. -- Shannon Hale
Some voices get hard and tight with age, some rough like broken glass. -- Shannon Hale
Felix can't act his way out of a box." "Boxes are tricky," Felix said, frowning. "And sometimes they're taped shut. -- Shannon Hale
Your head will be fine," said Miri. "It's your neck you should worry about. -- Shannon Hale
I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down. -- Shannon Hale
The dead cannot sleep long when the moon is round
The dead toss and turn deep in the muddy ground
The dead never rest well in the living house
The dead hear the secrets the owl tells the mouse -- Shannon Hale
And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' ... Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood. -- Shannon Hale
Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo? -- Shannon Hale
You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky. -- Shannon Hale
I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine."
"Bayern's Own? But you're a child."
Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short. -- Shannon Hale
All I've ever wanted was to be near you. -- Shannon Hale
She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days. -- Shannon Hale
Tis I, my sweet, your rough-and-ready man
Well hid by night to beg your fine white hand
Though king of bandits, draped in chains of gold
I'm poor in love and suffer grief untold -- Shannon Hale
Well, write me into the list of Those Who Don't Mind a Bit," said Cupid, eyeing his perfectly toned arms and chest. "My, but he will break a few hearts. -- Shannon Hale
Smell is the voice of the soul... -- Shannon Hale
Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I'd outgrown two shoe sizes ago? -- Shannon Hale
Everyone needs a smile and a friend, whether they know it or not.-Shannon Hale -- Shannon Hale
I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever. Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley -- Shannon Hale
The only things that excited her father, the king, more than a good ball were sustainable logging practices -- Shannon Hale
He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched. -- Shannon Hale
No. I'm a wreck," she said in the squeaky high voice of one who is determined not to cry. "You do not seem like it," Mrs. Wattlesbrook squeaked back. "Thanks," Charlotte chirped. "I do yoga. Ninety percent of confidence is posture. -- Shannon Hale
Later, when they would spend straight hours conversing in the dark, Jane would realize that Henry kissed the way he talked- his entire attention taut, focused, intensely hers. -- Shannon Hale
You drink root beer while you watch an NBA game? You are an American wannabe, aren't you?"
"That is perhaps the most horrid thing you could say to an Englishman."
"Worse than French wannabe?"
"Well, there is that. -- Shannon Hale
Uge, save me from the sauce of their loveyness-raso
Forest Born -- Shannon Hale
I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life. -- Shannon Hale
That's right! Besides, like I'd ever let my sister drown my pet butterflies. I regularly whip her butt in Grimmnastics class. -- Shannon Hale
I feel like a tiny bug, and the world is a hungry bird looking down at me. -- Shannon Hale
For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull?
Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining."
Your immensely entertaining sister,
Miri -- Shannon Hale
It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did. -- Shannon Hale
I know they are naught things, but I devour novels. (p. 57). -- Shannon Hale
It's not something you tell your single best friend. It'd be like rubbing your nose in the poop of my happiness. -- Shannon Hale
Make haste Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that. -- Shannon Hale
It's a universal truth that nothing spoils a postlunch game of croquet like suspecting the other players of murder. -- Shannon Hale
Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people? -- Shannon Hale
She touched the healthy folds of skin around the baby's neck, wrists, and thighs, the dark lines crying for life made in his forehead, and thought how people start with wrinkles and end with wrinkles, grow into their skin and then live to grow out of it again. -- Shannon Hale
Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth. -- Shannon Hale
A heart is a heart in a child or a man. -- Shannon Hale
You've been quiet lately ... but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet. -- Shannon Hale
Outside her mother's old bedroom, wielding spiky spears and magic staffs. They nodded to her as she opened the door. "Remember," said one, "never touch the mirror." "I remember," she said. The room was -- Shannon Hale
Thank you, sir. Thus far the highlight of my stay has been making love to you.
Mr. Nobley bowed in acknowledgment. The conversation completely quieted. -- Shannon Hale
Apple smiled. She could play the damsel-in-distress like a cow could jump over a moon. The male species couldn't resist wanting to help her. -- Shannon Hale
Most people are genuinely good, sweetheart, and even the evil ones have some good in them. -Shannon Hale -- Shannon Hale
The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween. -- Shannon Hale
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone. -- Shannon Hale
Despite her mother, Raven had always been a nice girl. Yes, she would grow up to poison and rampage and try to destroy all happiness, but that was no reason not to be civil. -- Shannon Hale
Charlotte wondered if she would have recognized the crazy much earlier if he looked more like Steve Buscemi then Mr. Medieval Hotness. -- Shannon Hale
I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else. -- Shannon Hale
Becky, are you studying conversational Yiddish? -- Shannon Hale
Iving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry. -- Shannon Hale
Even stories need a chance to sleep. -- Shannon Hale
Don't let the inconsequential fairy tales stand in your way! You do what makes you happy, no matter what. -- Shannon Hale
If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it. -- Shannon Hale
Look no farther than your hand, make a choice and take a stand -- Shannon Hale
More guns! Weren't they supposed to just use bully clubs in England? Where had she been getting her information? -- Shannon Hale
Just like the old adage
what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself
-- Shannon Hale
...all things speak, in their way, don't they? -- Shannon Hale
If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah. -- Shannon Hale
We were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back. -- Shannon Hale
I do like the world quite a lot. -- Shannon Hale
I know I would crumble if I lost you. -- Shannon Hale
A need, a need, a need have I
A wish, a wish, a wish, I sigh -- Shannon Hale
Hear the leaves applauding
Hear the wind hurrahing
Hear the surf guffawing
The ways of old are dead
The queen has lost her head -- Shannon Hale
It must be a marvelous thing to feel so sure, to be able to meet someone's eyes and not look away. -- Shannon Hale
Oh! Apple Wh-wh-white! Hi! Hey. I mean" - his voice lowered - "hey there. -- Shannon Hale
Um ... I guess that's that," said Cerise. "That?" said Maddie. "That is never that. This is that. Or else that is this. And this is definitely not that. So let's go to the dance. -- Shannon Hale
I held her head to my shoulder, rocking her, rubbing her back. Poor thing, I don't think she know where to put the whole world. -- Shannon Hale
And with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens. -- Shannon Hale
If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price. -- Shannon Hale
Goodness knows she is too fierce for you
Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord
Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue
Her cheek's blush is as false as her word -- Shannon Hale
At least it wasn't raining. It started to rain. -- Shannon Hale
Why was the judgment of the disapproving so valuable? -- Shannon Hale
She read like a woman drinks water after nearly dying of dehydration. -- Shannon Hale
No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all. -- Shannon Hale
Jane caught sight of a very striking Colonel Andrews who, now that she watched him dance, might just be gay. -- Shannon Hale
Nonrefundable. It was a good, solid word, one you couldn't chew, one that only dissolved after sucking slowly. -- Shannon Hale
A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king. -- Shannon Hale
There you go ... let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears. -- Shannon Hale
That's the word he'd used - stunning. It's a difficult word to dismiss. She longed to be that word to someone. -- Shannon Hale
What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.
It is like all my life I thought the sky was green. -- Shannon Hale
Being a writer is a good, good thing. -- Shannon Hale
What? Don't British women know how to use their knees? -- Shannon Hale
But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page? -- Shannon Hale
Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff.
Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing. -- Shannon Hale
I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else. -- Shannon Hale
Sometimes instinct isn't fancy. -- Shannon Hale
Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life. -- Shannon Hale
My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute. -- Shannon Hale
But the hoping, that's what really hurts. -- Shannon Hale
Fantasy is not practice for what is real - fantasy is the opiate of women. -- Shannon Hale
Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth. -- Shannon Hale
Truth is when your mind and your gut agree. -- Shannon Hale
Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding. -- Shannon Hale
