Shannon Hale Quotes

#1. You'd better not talk about microscopes anymore," he whispered, "or I don't know if I can control myself. - Author: Shannon Hale

#2. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#3. I'm sorry, my lady," said Geric, rubbing his arm. "But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose. - Author: Shannon Hale

#4. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#5. He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face. - Author: Shannon Hale

#6. There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate. - Author: Shannon Hale

#7. 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? - Author: Shannon Hale

#8. The End is only the beginning. - Author: Shannon Hale

#9. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#10. He did a very good impression of a stone column. - Author: Shannon Hale

#11. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#12. No one just falls in love, you idiot. - Author: Shannon Hale

#13. 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 - Author: Shannon Hale

#14. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#15. It's a universal truth that nothing spoils a postlunch game of croquet like suspecting the other players of murder. - Author: Shannon Hale

#16. 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 - Author: Shannon Hale

#17. It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat."
"Did she just call you tree rat? - Author: Shannon Hale

#18. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#19. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#20. Think of learning as storing up supplies you may need for a harsh winter. - Author: Shannon Hale

#21. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#22. My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute. - Author: Shannon Hale

#23. Look no farther than your hand, make a choice and take a stand - Author: Shannon Hale

#24. If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it. - Author: Shannon Hale

#25. Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding. - Author: Shannon Hale

#26. 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 - Author: Shannon Hale

#27. 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, - Author: Shannon Hale

#28. A heart is a heart in a child or a man. - Author: Shannon Hale

#29. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#30. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#31. You don't need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless. - Author: Shannon Hale

#32. Some voices get hard and tight with age, some rough like broken glass. - Author: Shannon Hale

#33. I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous. - Author: Shannon Hale

#34. A need, a need, a need have I
A wish, a wish, a wish, I sigh - Author: Shannon Hale

#35. Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone. - Author: Shannon Hale

#36. Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts. - Author: Shannon Hale

#37. 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 - Author: Shannon Hale

#38. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#39. I didn't raise you I be good and weak. I raised you to be powerful and happy. - Author: Shannon Hale

#40. Felix can't act his way out of a box." "Boxes are tricky," Felix said, frowning. "And sometimes they're taped shut. - Author: Shannon Hale

#41. Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right. - Author: Shannon Hale

#42. Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life. - Author: Shannon Hale

#43. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#44. Hear the leaves applauding
Hear the wind hurrahing
Hear the surf guffawing
The ways of old are dead
The queen has lost her head - Author: Shannon Hale

#45. 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 - Author: Shannon Hale

#46. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#47. To be powerful, a kiss should make a journey, be its own story
begin with hesitation, move to realization, then melt into bliss. - Author: Shannon Hale

#48. 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 - Author: Shannon Hale

#49. Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion ... - Author: Shannon Hale

#50. You succeed because you're willing to give everything to your craft- everything! - Author: Shannon Hale

#51. For Colin Firth:
You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends. - Author: Shannon Hale

#52. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#53. Truth is when your mind and your gut agree. - Author: Shannon Hale

#54. I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else. - Author: Shannon Hale

#55. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#56. Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I'd outgrown two shoe sizes ago? - Author: Shannon Hale

#57. Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face. - Author: Shannon Hale

#58. I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else. - Author: Shannon Hale

#59. They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh. - Author: Shannon Hale

#60. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#61. 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, - Author: Shannon Hale

#62. Over there!"
"Where?" Enna asked in mock panic "Do you see something? - Author: Shannon Hale

#63. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#64. Why was the judgment of the disapproving so valuable? - Author: Shannon Hale

#65. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#66. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#67. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#68. No wolf falters before the bite
So strike
No hawk wavers before the dive
Just strike - Author: Shannon Hale

#69. I feel like a tiny bug, and the world is a hungry bird looking down at me. - Author: Shannon Hale

#70. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#71. (I love you, you're perfect, you're everything, you toast my marshmallows, baby.) - Author: Shannon Hale

#72. She knew it! Charlotte just knew it! And now her daughter was boyfriend-less! Yes! Wait-no! Oh no, poor Lu. - Author: Shannon Hale

#73. I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna - Author: Shannon Hale

#74. 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? - Author: Shannon Hale

#75. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#76. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#77. Even if things were broken right now. Sometimes it was the cracks that let the light in. - Author: Shannon Hale

#78. 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 - Author: Shannon Hale

#79. If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah. - Author: Shannon Hale

#80. He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched. - Author: Shannon Hale

#81. All I've ever wanted was to be near you. - Author: Shannon Hale

#82. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#83. There you go ... let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears. - Author: Shannon Hale

#84. She made herself take two deep-rooted yoga breaths, smiled back, and thought of men in breeches. - Author: Shannon Hale

#85. Iving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry. - Author: Shannon Hale

#86. What? Don't British women know how to use their knees? - Author: Shannon Hale

#87. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#88. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#89. The lowlands aren't so different from here," said Britta. "Just bigger and ... " "A lot bigger," said Frid. "It's - Author: Shannon Hale

#90. Briar stood, pushing up her sleeves. 'It's about to get all nonfiction in here'. - Author: Shannon Hale

#91. No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart - Author: Shannon Hale

#92. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#93. As long as there are movement and harmony, there are words. - Author: Shannon Hale

#94. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#95. Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril. - Author: Shannon Hale

#96. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#97. 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 - Author: Shannon Hale

#98. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#99. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale

#100. 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. - Author: Shannon Hale