Goose Girl Shannon Hale Quotes

#1. The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?

Jeff Goodell

#2. Working hard is one thing, but working hard with purpose is what separates the good from the great

Thad Matta

#3. Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

Tim Bishop

#4. As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

Hany Abu-Assad

#5. I'm so grateful for where I am now, but I think I'm more grateful because it's been so hard-won; I haven't given up, and I've had plenty of reasons to give up.

Geneva Carr

#6. Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.

Anna Thomas

#7. 'Goose girl, may I kiss you?' She answered by ... kissing him first.

Shannon Hale

#8. There is no
room for the love of others within the tight, crowded miser's hole of a private
ego. Be empty in order to be filled. 'He that loveth his life shall lose it; and
he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Ayn Rand

#9. The Seeker's host body was named Lacey; a dainty, soft, feminine name. Lacey. As inappropriate as the size, in my opinion. Like naming a pit bull Fluffy.

Stephenie Meyer

#10. 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

#11. Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.

Shannon Hale

#12. Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Shannon Hale

#13. But there's more to this world than meets the eye, isn't there?

Alison McGhee

#14. I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.

Robert Munsch

#15. 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