Shannon Hale Quotes - Page 5

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• Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.

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  Hurt, Home, Lucky

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• Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

  Shannon Hale

  Real, Character, Years

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.9, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Shannon Hale

  Want, Kingdoms, Firsts

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Enna Burning”, p.41, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.

  Shannon Hale

  Happens, Capable, Bossy

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• Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--

  Shannon Hale

  People, Adages, Dislike

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• Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.

  Shannon Hale

  Years, Cry, Lost

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.99, A&C Black

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• Isi, I’m trying to say that you’ve been… no, you’re so, you’re–” He stopped. "You are,” he said. His hand found hers, and he held her finger tightly, as though he did not dare to do any more than hold her one hand, and look at her, and breathe deeply.

  Shannon Hale

  Hands, Trying, Looks

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.202, A&C Black

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• A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.

  Shannon Hale

  Kings, Children, Heart

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• Uge, save me from the sauce of their loveyness-raso Forest Born

  Shannon Hale

  Sauce, Forests, Born

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• You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.

  Shannon Hale

  Quiet

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.13, A&C Black

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• Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

  Shannon Hale

  Childhood, Tails, Lost

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.28, A&C Black

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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.

  Shannon Hale

  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.

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  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.

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  Girl, Morning, Hate

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• Smell is the voice of the soul.

  Shannon Hale

  Voice, Smell, Soul

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• But the hoping, that's what really hurts.

  Shannon Hale

  Hurt

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.90, A&C Black

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• She dismounted, grabbed Enna's hand so tightly that she drew blood with her fingernails, walked straight into the nearest cottage, and plopped down on a bed. Enna nodded to the startled cottage dwellers. It's the queen, you see," said Enna. "She's going to have a baby in your house. You don't mind?

  Shannon Hale

  Baby, Queens, Blood

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Enna Burning”, p.212, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna tripped often, and cursed each time she tripped, until Dasha said, "Enna, you might watch your language." Enna grimaced. "I was. You should hear my thoughts.

  Shannon Hale

  Watches, Frozen, Earth

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.79, A&C Black

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• Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face.

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  Smell, Waiting, Meat

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.191, A&C Black

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