Shannon Hale Quotes - Page 5

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• There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

  Shannon Hale

  Hate, World, Midnight

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.109, A&C Black

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• Finn always called it Enna's Stream. He tended to refer to most anything as belonging to her--Enna's Meadow, Enna's Mountain. When he referred to Yasid as Enna's Kingdom, she said, "Isn't that your heart?" Finn smiled and kissed her hand. Isi rolled her eyes. "Oh you two are impossible." Enna laughed. "This coming from the girl who calls her husband 'sweet little bunny boy'?" Isi blushed. "That was just once.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Sweet, Husband

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• Finn, do you see the lias—whatever, the orange-haired girl?” Razo Gestured ahead. “Do you think she’s pretty?” Finn glanced Dasha’s way, then returned his attention ot his horse. “She’s all right.” “Really? Just all right?” Finn shrugged. Razo rolled his eyes. “What am I saying? He doesn’t think any girl is pretty but Enna.” “Are there any girls but Enna?” Finn called back. “There’d better be.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Horse, Eye

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• . . . as long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.

  Shannon Hale

  Long, Movement, Harmony

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.5, A&C Black

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• Gerti didn’t ask for help.” Miri swallowed and tried to calm her quavering voice. “It was my fault.” “So it was. Now you all have learned that those who speak out of turn choose punishment for themselves and anyone they speak to.” “So if I speak to you, Tutor Olana, will you get the lashes?

  Shannon Hale

  Speaks Out, Punishment, Voice

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.46, A&C Black

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• Will you accompany me in this dance?” he said, bowing and holding out his hand. “No, thank you.” Miri smiled. The prince frowned and looked and the chief delegate as if for assistance. Miri laughed self consciously. “I, uh, I was teasing.

  Shannon Hale

  Self, Hands, Tease

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• 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.

  Shannon Hale

  Sorry, Taken, Promise

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.306, A&C Black

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• ...first thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I don’t think your geese care much for your betrothed and I hope they hadn’t any plans on sharing our bed.

  Shannon Hale

  Love You, Thinking, Honor

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.379, A&C Black

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• If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price.

  Shannon Hale

  Brother, Listening, Bigs

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.96, A&C Black

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• Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd like it to have a beginning as grand as a ball and an ending in a whisper, like a mother tucking in a child for sleep.

  Shannon Hale

  Mother, Children, Sleep

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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.

  Shannon Hale

  Sorry, Taken, Hands

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• I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.

  Shannon Hale

  Writing, Thinking, Dare

  Shannon Hale (2012). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.130, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever." Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley

  Shannon Hale

  Bye, Feet, Forever

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• 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.

  Shannon Hale

  Boulders, Facts, Posture

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.75, A&C Black

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• Your head will be fine,” said Miri. “It’s your neck you should worry about.

  Shannon Hale

  Worry, Necks, Should

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.291, A&C Black

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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.

  Shannon Hale

  Heart, Long, Laughing

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

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• It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat?

  Shannon Hale

  Tree, Rats, Pleasure

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.43, A&C Black

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• Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then her voice, like her singing, cut through the crickets and crackling fire.

  Shannon Hale

  Mother, Eye, Cutting

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.321, A&C Black

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• 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?

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Thinking, Sickness

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.288, A&C Black

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• But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see the stars. The world felt as high as the depthless night sky and deeper than she could know. She understood, suddenly and keenly, that she was too small to run away, and she sat on the damp ground and cried.

  Shannon Hale

  Running, Stars, Dark

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• No one had ever called her wild before. She wanted to be wild now, for him. Wild seemed more enticing then a bowl of berries.

  Shannon Hale

  Berries, Wanted, Enticing

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• The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.

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  Girl, Lying, Hair

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.147, A&C Black

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• What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?

  Shannon Hale

  Knees, Use, British

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.87, A&C Black

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• His brothers could tease him about his height or the number of scars he was collecting on his body. He could take the joke when they said he would die having never won a fair wrestling match. But the topic of Bettin still smarted too much. He'd imagined being with her always. Now when he closed his eyes, he had trouble imagining anything else.

  Shannon Hale

  Brother, Wrestling, Eye

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.15, A&C Black

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• I hate them," Enna said. "Whoever is responsible for making me sleep outside without pillows, I hate them." Mmm-hmmm...," Dasha said. Rin had noticed that the Tiran girl often had trouble remembering how to speak in the morning. If Finn were here," Enna continued to mumble as she rewrapped her head cloth, "he'd let me rest my head on his chest at night. Or leg. Or arm. And then he'd find whoever was responsible for the whole sleeping outside with no pillows situation and hold him while I kicked him in the shins.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Morning, Hate

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