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• They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

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  Good Life, Nice, Together

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

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  Wind, Floating, Stones

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.98, A&C Black

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• He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face.

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  Faces, Dashing

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.48, A&C Black

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• This morning, Tegus welcomed me again with an arm clasp and cheek touch. I wasn't startled this time, and I breathed in at his neck. How can I describe the scent of his skin? He smells something like cinnamon-- brown and dry and sweet and warm. Ancestors, is it wrong for me to imagine laying my head on his chest and closing my eyes and breathing in his smell?

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  Sweet, Morning, Eye

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• I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.

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  Writing, Trying, Would Be

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• What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window. "Um, did I just say, 'Ya'?" "You just said 'Ya,'" he confirmed. "If I am not mistaken, it was a battle cry, warning that you were about to attack me. I, uh..." She stopped to laugh. "I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.

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  Eye, Hands, Strange Places

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.81, A&C Black

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• 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.

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  Home, Boys, Laughing

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• They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything else. She looked back. Her took heart took its time quieting down.

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  Heart, Long, Laughing

  Shannon Hale (2008). “The Goose Girl”, p.193, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

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  Real, Lasts, Poor

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.147, A&C Black

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• Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..." (Rapunzel glares) "Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.

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  Mean, Gold, Towers

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• WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended! REWARD

  Shannon Hale

  Horse, Hair, Jail

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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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  Giving, Pay, I Can

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.180, A&C Black

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• 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.

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  Men, Add, Legs

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.191, A&C Black

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• Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.

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  Clever, Years, Thrones

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.353, A&C Black

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• Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding.

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  Son, Doing Me, Goes On

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.366, A&C Black

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• Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and blue, and purple, for the sake of all ordered things, how can you dismiss purple? Celi, call Nom back and tell him of my need for purple!

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  Blue, Color, Purple

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.69, A&C Black

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

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  Sad, Soul, Tears

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• And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.

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  Struggle, Sadness, Saws

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

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  Two, Cherries, Cramming

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.13, A&C Black

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• I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.

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  Sorry, Scarecrow, Said

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• I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine." "Bayern's Own? But you're a child." Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short.

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  Children, Sky, Hobbies

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.16, A&C Black

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• He did a very good impression of a stone column.

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  Stones, Columns, Impression

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• What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts?

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  Hurt, Should, I Like Him

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.163, A&C Black

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• Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

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  Choices, Sound, Becoming

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• We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

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  Real, Nice, Hands

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