Shannon Hale quotes - page 2

Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy? (Shannon Hale)
Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.
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Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn..
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Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident.
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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.
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Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
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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.
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You've been quiet lately... but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.
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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.
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... fantasy is not practice for what is real-fantasy is the opiate of women.
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Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers. (Shannon Hale)
My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don't, and that's what makes them more precious.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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.
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He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched.
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Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late.
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Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
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