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• Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was so amused, her whole face wanted to be a part of the smile.

  Shannon Hale

  Wrinkles, Faces, Peculiar

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.39, A&C Black

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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?

  Shannon Hale

  Missing, Might, Facts

  Shannon Hale (2007). “Austenland: A Novel”, Bloomsbury USA

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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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  Girl, Warrior, Helping

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.257, A&C Black

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• In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I’ve tried to ignore that part of me, I’ve gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

  Shannon Hale

  Crazy, Reading, Writing

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• I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.

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  Sweet, Morning, Pain

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• She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work I lost my heart without a sound

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  Song, Heart, Sound

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• We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?

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  Mother, Real, Nice

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.280, A&C Black

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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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  Giving Up, Real, Taken

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• Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.

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  Eye, Giving, Black

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.208, A&C Black

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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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  Wind, Faces, Make Sense

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• Nom, do say something funny so she can admire!

  Shannon Hale

  Admire

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• Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue.

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  Important, Stories, Earth

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.6, A&C Black

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• I always knew it was ill-fated, but he truly believed I would be his bride. I guess I'd never realized that before. He had taken my mucker hand and looked at my mottled face and believed we would wed. And he hadn't seemed sorry. In fact, he'd swooped me up in a corridor and kissed me. That set me to crying.

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  Sorry, Taken, Hands

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• Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion.

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  Beats, Said, Indigestion

  Shannon Hale (2012). “Midnight in Austenland: A Novel”, p.185, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

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  Real

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.8, A&C Black

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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?

  Shannon Hale

  Witty, Falling In Love, Believe

  Shannon Hale (2007). “Austenland: A Novel”, Bloomsbury USA

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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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  Dog, Cat, People

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.187, A&C Black

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• Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

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  People, Judgement, Opinion

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.112, A&C Black

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

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  Real, Practice, Opiates

  Shannon Hale (2007). “Austenland: A Novel”, Bloomsbury USA

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• How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and adorable?" "Just like you." "With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes" "Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.

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  Nurse, Adorable, Trying

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• Goodness knows she is too fierce for you Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue Her cheek's blush is as false as her word

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  Eye, Fierce, Lord

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• ...Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard." "LIVER. Good one." "Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?" "Life Invasion. Like it." "Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport." "Doesn't that spell OLIVER?

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  Emotional, Letters, Invasion

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel”, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

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  Sleep, Sides, Responsible

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

  Shannon Hale

  Panic, Mock

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• A heart is a heart in a child or a man.

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  Children, Heart, Men

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.362, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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