Shannon Hale Quotes

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You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.

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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 ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don't, and that's what makes them more precious.

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Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens

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Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?

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There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

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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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The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.

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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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The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween.

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Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

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Fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

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I'm not hopeless, that's the problem. I'm too hopeful, if anything... I'm so thick-headed it's taken me this long to give up on men, but I can't give up completely, you know? So I... I channel all my hope into an idea, to someone who can't reject me because he isn't real!

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Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late.

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Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.

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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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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.

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Well do I remember the first night we met, how you questioned my opinion that first impressions are perfect. You were right to do so, of course, but even then I suspected what I've come to believe most passionately these past weeks: from that first moment, I knew you were a dangerous woman, and I was in great peril of falling in love." She thought she should say something witty here. She said, "Really?

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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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They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh.

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Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly." No, I'm not," said Ani. Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?

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Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and blue, and purple, for the sake of all ordered things, how can you dismiss purple? Celi, call Nom back and tell him of my need for purple!

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Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

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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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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.

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

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For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining." Your immensely entertaining sister, Miri

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She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

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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.

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Here's the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you.

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