The Princess Academy Quotes

#1. Once she'd thought all the knowledge in the world was contained in the princess academy's thirteen books. Now she faced thousands. She wondered if she should curtsy as if she were entering a chapel.

Shannon Hale

#2. It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them was a privileged Moroi princess and the other a delinquent dhampir with a disciplinary file so long that it broke school records.

Richelle Mead

#3. 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.

Shannon Hale

#4. Duty doesn't always fit comfortably.

Shannon Hale

#5. Those crazy physicists that spend all day cooking themselves under an atomic reactor and all night writing stories for Weird World have done it. Spoiled my day completely. One of those idiots has hung the world up like a celluloid ball in an airstream.

Shirley Jackson

#6. Guardian Belikov is the princess's guardian now," said Kirova, "Her sanctioned guardian."
"You got cheap foreign labour to protect Lissa?

Richelle Mead

#7. My name is Dimitri Belikov. I've come to take you back to St. Vladimir's Academy, Princess.

Richelle Mead

#8. Everything costs so much - clothes and one's face - and just silly things like cinemas and cocktails - and even gramophone records!' Roddy

Agatha Christie

#9. Courage is not fearlessness.

Shannon Hale

#10. Who acts in haste repents at leisure.

Aesop

#11. The world is a thick book
and I am a big bookworm.

Anika Redhed

#12. Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.

Shannon Hale

#13. If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

Robert Collier

#14. You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

Charles De Lint