Shannon Hale Short Quotes

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As long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.

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

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If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours.

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

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I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.

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I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else.

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Your head will be fine, said Miri. It's your neck you should worry about.

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

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It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat?

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And with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.

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

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I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.

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No wolf falters before the bite So strike No hawk wavers before the dive Just strike

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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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If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

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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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Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.

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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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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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Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

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Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.

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

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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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You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

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He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched.

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And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step.

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Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.

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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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