Top 100 Shannon Hale Quotes
#1. NASA's next urgent mission should be to send good poets into space so they can describe what it's really like.
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#2. Everyone needs a smile and a friend, whether they know it or not.-Shannon Hale
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#3. Most people are genuinely good, sweetheart, and even the evil ones have some good in them. -Shannon Hale
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#4. 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.
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#5. Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.
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#6. This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no!
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#7. My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don't, and that's what makes them more precious.
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#8. The lowlands aren't so different from here," said Britta. "Just bigger and ... " "A lot bigger," said Frid. "It's
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#9. 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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#10. Oh! Apple Wh-wh-white! Hi! Hey. I mean" - his voice lowered - "hey there.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Razo wasn't good at anything except maybe cramming two cherries up one nostril.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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?
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#17. I've been shot through the heart, men! Never have I seen such smoldering beauty.
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#18. Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.
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#19. I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna
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#20. Sometimes it seems my identity's a matter of opinion
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#21. 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.
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#22. 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
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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!
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#25. Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.
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#26. 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
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#28. She knew it! Charlotte just knew it! And now her daughter was boyfriend-less! Yes! Wait-no! Oh no, poor Lu.
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#29. 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.
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#30. I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. (I love you, you're perfect, you're everything, you toast my marshmallows, baby.)
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#34. 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.
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#35. I feel like a tiny bug, and the world is a hungry bird looking down at me.
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#36. 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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#37. 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.
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#38. 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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#39. WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL
For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended!
REWARD
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#40. 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
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#41. 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.
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#42. No wolf falters before the bite
So strike
No hawk wavers before the dive
Just strike
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#43. 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.
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#44. Without hope, it was impossible to fantasize.
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#45. You can be who you will," he repeated. His voice softened. "And if you will have me, I will be the one beside you.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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
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#48. Well, I don't want to complain," Apple began. "Oh, go ahead and complain. That's why you have a best friend forever after.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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!
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#51. For Colin Firth:
You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.
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#52. The only things that excited her father, the king, more than a good ball were sustainable logging practices
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#53. 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.
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#54. 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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#55. Go get dressed, Eddie," she called out. "If any hopeful murderers attack us, Lizzy has promised to beat them with her curling iron.
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#56. My advice: If you every have the chance to change the world, don't hesitate. Leave your great big mark.
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#57. Over there!"
"Where?" Enna asked in mock panic "Do you see something?
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#58. 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,
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#59. 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.
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#60. I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-"
"It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.
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#61. 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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#62. They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh.
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#63. 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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#64. In Gotham, batman just stumbles into crime," said Luther. "Salt lake is annoyingly tame.
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#65. 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.
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#66. Uge, save me from the sauce of their loveyness-raso
Forest Born
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#67. I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.
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#68. 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.
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#69. 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.
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#70. I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.
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#71. Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
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#72. Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face.
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#73. It was my jewelry! Briar shouted after his father because he'd forgotten to ask what was stolen.
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#74. 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.
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#76. Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I'd outgrown two shoe sizes ago?
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#77. 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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#78. 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.
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#79. I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else.
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#80. As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.
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#81. A woman without hobbies is dangerously self-negligent.
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#82. 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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#83. Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
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#85. Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.
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#86. But man, can she snore," Cedar smiled wistfully, "Do you think when I become a real girl I'll be able to snore, too?
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#87. I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.
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#88. 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.
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#89. I think sometimes just being silent and watching can change a person.
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#90. Why was the judgment of the disapproving so valuable?
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#91. 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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#92. 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.
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#93. 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.
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#94. 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.
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#95. 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
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#96. 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
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#97. 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.
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#98. 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
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#99. 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.
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#100. 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.
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