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