Shannon Hale quotes - page 3

There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate. (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.
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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.
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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.
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... and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.
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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.
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Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo?
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I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.
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Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself.
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...all things speak, in their way, don't they?
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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)
He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer.
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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.
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My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.
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Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.
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She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days.
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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.
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He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face.
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All I've ever wanted was to be near you.
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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?
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You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky. (Shannon Hale)
He did a very good impression of a stone column.
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It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat?
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If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.
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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.
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