Shannon Hale Quotes - Page 2

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

I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you.

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

I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

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

Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.

We found it!" Charlotte yelled, as they ran back through the house. "We found it, we found it!"

Eddie, Mr. Mallery, and Colonel Andrews came from separate directions, converging in the front hall. Miss Charming was hopping up and down, her bosom nearly rising to slap her own forehead.

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

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.

Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.

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.

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.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna

Over there!"
"Where?" Enna asked in mock panic "Do you see something?

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.

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?

I was thinking how you can't tell if a person's beautiful or not by her shadow...

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.