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Shannon Hale Quotes: 22

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
Book of a Thousand Days
There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.
Princess Academy
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.
You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.
I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.
The Actor and the Housewife
I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.
Princess Academy
If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours.
The Goose Girl
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 Goose Girl
Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.
The Goose Girl
You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.
Book of a Thousand Days
I do like the world quite a lot.
Book of a Thousand Days
He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer.
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.
The Goose Girl
What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.
Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.
River Secrets
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.
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.
Book of a Thousand Days
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.
Enna Burning
Being a writer is a good, good thing.
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.
Book of a Thousand Days
Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
Princess Academy
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.
Book of a Thousand Days